[jdom-interest] Suppressing <?xml version="1.0"?>

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 8:03 PM -0700 8/21/00, Joseph Bowbeer wrote:
>By the way, I noticed that the XML Declaration (processing instruction) is
>suppressed in SOAP messages.
>
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/#_Toc478383492
>
>    "All SOAP messages are encoded using XML. ... A SOAP message MUST NOT
>contain Processing Instructions. ... The Envelope is the top element of the
>XML document representing the message."
>

However, the XML declaration is not a processing instruction. 
Therefore a SOAP message that contains an XML declaration still does 
not necessarily contain any processing instructions. A cursory 
inspection of the section you reference shows nothing that prohibits 
an XML declaration in a SOAP message.

I incorrectly claimed that the XML declaration was a processing 
instruction in my first XML book. I did get it right in the Bible. I 
apologize for having spread this misinformation. Mea culpa. Mea 
maxima culpa.


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