[Expat-discuss] Re: Bugs in expat 1.95.8

[rolf at pointsman.de]

On 15 Dec, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Karl Waclawek <karl at waclawek.net>:
>> The XML declaration is optional, so you don't need to add one.
> 
> Hm... so it is.  I've never noticed that question mark before.  Has it
> been optional all along?  I thought I once got a well-formedness error
> because it was missing?


The XML declaration was alwas optional, since the first edition
of the XML recommendation, more than six years (or better almost seven
years now) ago. See 
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-prolog-dtd

rolf