Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names

At 10:54 AM -0400 10/22/03, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

>>If you can show a single real document that this applies to, I'll take
>>it more seriously.

Done.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15" standalone="yes"?>

is 62 characters long, not counting the byte order mark. I have 
published books in which I was required to keep all lines of code to 
54 characters or less. Not being able to insert a line break in the 
XML declaration would be a significant hardship for me and anyone 
else who writes about XML with largish fonts on narrowish pages.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA