[jdom-interest] Crimson bug

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 8:45 PM -0400 9/5/01, Jon Baer wrote:
>Hey can I ask a question ...
>
>Why is it that on mainly all the parsers I use that <?xml version="1.0"?> is a
>*required* factor?  Im not sure if this relates to this bug but if its considered a
>PI for mainly all applications which may use a stylesheet in the end shouldn't this
>be an optional factor?
>

It's not required. If a parser requires it, then the parser is broken. However, it is strongly recommended. The Crimson problem seems to be that Crimson is misinterpreting an xml-stylesheet processing instruction as an XML declaration. (Also, FYI the XML declaration is technically not a processing instruction).
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