Comments on: browser bug

by: Richard

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:06:51 +0000

Ah, I see what you mean. I always assumed that the xml declaration was itself a processing instruction, as the syntax is so similar.

I found that when I was creating xml documents in javascript, using:

document.implementation.createDocument() or, in IE, the Microsoft.XMLDOM activeX object

The documents didn’t include an xml declaration. The only way I found to add the correct xml declaration was by using “document.createProcessingInstruction()”. Do you know of another way to ensure that xml documents contain the correct xml declaration?

by: White Lynx

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:37:25 +0000

Note that XML declaration is not a processing instruction (also syntax is similar, that makes existing terminology a little bit confusing), and is not treated as such (there are readonly attributes document.xmlEncoding, document.xmlVersion and document.xmlStandalone that can be used to retreive necessary info however), therefore
[code]document.insertBefore(document.createProcessingInstruction(”xml”,”version=’1.0′ encoding=’utf-8′”), document.firstChild);[/code]
will be processed as unknown PI, nor XML decraration.