1270 2005-04-25 21:11:02 +0000 "omit-xml-declaration" should be implementation-defined 2005-05-04 23:48:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XQuery 1.0 Last Call drafts PC Windows XP CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 chamberl chamberl public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 3616 0 chamberl 2005-04-25 21:11:02 +0000 Appendix C.3 of the XQuery document states that the default value of the "omit- xml-declaration" serialization parameter is "yes". This means that an implementation is not allowed to provide an XML declaration in serialized output unless explicitly requested to do so. Providing an XML declaration is good practice, especially if an encoding other than UTF-8 or UTF-16 is used. The default value of this parameter should be changed to "implementation- defined". This change will be consistent with several other serialization parameters, and will allow each implementation to define its own policy with respect to XML declarations. 3531 1 chamberl 2005-05-04 23:48:44 +0000 This suggestion was accepted and implemented by the Query working group on May 4, 2005.