Megginson and XMLNews

[David Brownell]

Dawns on me that the real issue here is probably that IE5
doesn't let you browse DTD files directly.  Reasonable, and
if so, not at all a bug.

As David noted, (different words) they may be XML, but they're
not documents and when you try to view an XML "file" the browser
must assume it's a document.  Ergo the diagnostic.  If the
text declaration looked like an XML declaration (with version)
you'd get an error because the first declaration was for an
element or somesuch, rather than a document!

- Dave

p.s. XMLNews ... cool stuff!  I'll look at it in more detail soon.


> >  > If you are trying to see DTD in IE5 browser, it reports:
> >  > <IE5 Error>
> >  > The 'version' attribute is required at this location. Line 1, Position 7
> >  > <?xml encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >  > </IE5 Error>
> >
> > This is an interesting problem -- MSIE must consider the DTD files to
> > be of type text/xml, but they are not XML documents.  If they had an
> > XML declaration at the top (rather than just an encoding declaration),
> > they would be invalid as part of a complete document.
> 
> Actually, this looks like another IE5 XML bug ...
> 
> - 4.3.2 of the XML spec says an external PE (like a DTD fragment!)
>   may have an optional "Text Declaration".
> - 4.3.1 says that the text declaration may have (or omit) a version
> - 2.8 explains the rule for the XML declaration
> 
> It's always safe to have an external entity with this at the front:
> 
>         <?xml version='1.0' encoding='whatever'?>
> 
> The "version" may be dropped if it _is NOT_ the document entity.
> The "encoding" may be dropped if it _is_ the document entity.
> Only the document entity may have a "standalone" attribute.

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