Re: making mozilla's xml to behave in a non-standard way

none wrote:
> 
> 
> Marco Milanesi wrote:
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>> hi, this is a strange question I know, but I hope to get some responses:
>>
>>     I have a web application that I can't modify. it outputs an xml to
>> the browser with newlines and spaces at the beginning of the xml.
>>
>> now the question. How can I modify this behaviour of mozilla? how can it
>> be more tolerant to this malformed xml?
>>
> 
> It is not malformed. It is legal to put whites characters before the 
> <?xml .. tag
> It's mozilla which needs fixing, as many other buggy xml parsers.
> 

Actually, could you quote the spec? Or tell me how I quote wrong?

 From XML 1.0 3rd edition:


http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-well-formed

[Definition: A textual object is a well-formed XML document if:]
1. Taken as a whole, it matches the production labeled document.
...

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-document

[1]   	document	   ::=   	prolog element Misc*

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-prolog

[22]   	prolog	   ::=   	XMLDecl? Misc* (doctypedecl Misc*)?
[23]   	XMLDecl	   ::=   	'<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>'

As you can see, there is no whitespace in front of the XMLDecl.

Axel