Re: Additional syntactic restrictions

[Tim Bray <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Waite wrote:

> >
> I do not know of anything within the XML recommendation which requires 
> the application to pass a XML declaration through, meaning an XML parser 
> does not neccessarily provide this encoding information to the application.

The encoding of the input document is in the information set.  The 
reason is that a parser cannot not know the encoding, so it should in 
principle be made available to apps -Tim