[jdom-interest] CDATA data (followup with more info)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>Why doesn't JDOM use the <?xml encoding="blah"?> preprocessor 
>instruction to determine
>what to output as?  Isn't that tag required anyways?

Wrong on three counts: It's not required, it's not a tag, and it's 
not a processing instruction. JDOM generates the appropriate *XML 
declaration* to match the encoding you requested.

JDOM hews pretty closely to the XML spec. Most of your confusion 
seems to stem from misunderstandings about XML rather than JDOM.
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