Illustration of Different Node Trees for XML (W3C(XT)/IE5)

[John Cowan]

Chris Lovett wrote:

> (2) IE5 gives you all PI's.  I don't see why the <?xml delcaration is not a
> valid PI for representation in your DOM.  What if you want to change the
> encoding and save the document back out ?

The XML declaration and text declaration look like PIs to SGML engines,
but they aren't, per the XML rec.  They don't have the same syntax,
occurrence constraints, etc.

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