simple xml question

[Dan Henderson]

I have one xml document that includes a second xml document within a pair of
tags. The second document also has the xml declaration <xml version="1.0"
?>. Is this OK, or do I need to remove the declaration from the second xml
document?

[Micah Cowan]

"Dan Henderson" <da***********@bellsouth.net> writes:

I have one xml document that includes a second xml document within a pair of
tags. The second document also has the xml declaration <xml version="1.0"
?>. Is this OK, or do I need to remove the declaration from the second xml
document?

The above is not an xml declaration; nor is it a valid tag. If
you meant, <?xml version="1.0"?>, then the answer to your
question is: it is not OK, you need to remove the declaration
from the "second xml document", otherwise you do not have
well-formed XML.

-Micah

[Andy Fish]

you could store the whole child document in a CDATA section but then you
would not really be storing it as XML, just a blob which happened to be XML

"Micah Cowan" <mi***@cowan.name> wrote in message
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"Dan Henderson" <da***********@bellsouth.net> writes:

I have one xml document that includes a second xml document within a pair of tags. The second document also has the xml declaration <xml version="1.0" ?>. Is this OK, or do I need to remove the declaration from the second xml document?

The above is not an xml declaration; nor is it a valid tag. If
you meant, <?xml version="1.0"?>, then the answer to your
question is: it is not OK, you need to remove the declaration
from the "second xml document", otherwise you do not have
well-formed XML.

-Micah