to the drafters: a link from the discussion between [30] and [31] down to the
discussion concerning parsed entities ([78]+) would help here.
thanks.
David Megginson wrote:
> james anderson writes:
>
> > 2? among the example DTD's we've found, some begin with an <?xml ... >
> > form. others don't. isn't that form excluded from being a PI and thus
> > from being a markupdecl?
>
> No, on two counts:
>
> ...
> 2) The <?xml...?> that you see at the beginning of the external subset
> is not a processing instruction but a text declaration (which is
> similar but not identical to an XML declaration). For example, if
> my external subset were encoded in ISO Latin 1, I would be required
> to put the following declaration at the top: