Re: XML Declaration

>>> Dirty hack :
>>>     var piElem = doc.createProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0'
>>> encoding='UTF8'");
>>>  - a XML Declaration is not a Processing Instruction
>>> Real dirty ...
>>
>> Yeah, it is in fact so dirty that it should not work. Could you file a 
>> bug in bugzilla about that and post the bug number here.
> 
> Where is the bug in your view, should the DOM not allow creating such a 
> processing instruction or should the serializer bark at that processing 
> instruction when serializing the document?

IMHO the bug is in that we allow such a PI to be created.


> Only <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-pi> clearly excludes e.g. "xml" 
> or "XML" as target names for processing instructions but there is 
> nothing in the DOM spec saying that createProcessingInstruction should 
> implement that rule.

I believe the intention of the DOM WG was to disallow illegal PI-names, 
both in DOM L2 and DOM L3. Even though I agree they are very unclear on 
that.

/ Sicking