xml-declaration

Whitespace before XML declaration from JSP

Hello I'm trying to achieve full XHTML transitional validation of my JSP output but I've hit a snag. The top of the header looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; It is included with a stat...

wordpress doctype question?

how can I code in the following code into a wordpress site without the code causing an error with the php coding thanks. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> ...

OK to put comments before the XML declaration?

Is it OK to put comments before the XML declaration in an XML file? <!-- Is this bad to do? --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <someElement /> ...

How can I make the xmlserializer only serialize plain xml?

I need to get plain xml, without the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> at the beginning and xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" in first element from XmlSerializer. How can I do it? ...

Can I have an XHTML document with an XML declaration in standards mode for IE6?

I've been reading about this for the last half hour, and here's what I understand: IE 6 will render a page in standards mode if there's a valid DTD, but not if there are any comments above the DTD. The XML declaration is a comment that goes above the DTD. If the XML declaration is wrapped in a conditional comment, the page will rende...