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2026-02-09T16:55:56.972049Z
this isn't quite related to clojure, so i'm asking here: is it legal for an xml document to have multiple <?xml version="1.1"?> declarations? the data.xml parser doesn't care (uses the first one) but i don't want to rely on undefined or bad behavior
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Ludger Solbach 2026-02-09T17:02:05.874049Z
I'm not sure if it's illegal, but it does not make sense.
2026-02-09T17:06:28.997049Z
lol true. we're getting xml fragments from a third party that contain characters only legal in version 1.1, but not every fragment contains the version part. i tried prepending <?xml version="1.1"?> to all of the strings we're parsing, and that's worked so far but it makes me nervous. i'd prefer to avoid using a try/catch, as that can be costly for performance and we're crunching a fair amount.
Ludger Solbach 2026-02-09T17:10:43.420419Z
<? ?> are technically processing instructions, IIRC. If so, you may have any numbers of these.
2026-02-09T17:15:44.509319Z
ah great, thank you
2026-02-09T17:16:38.903989Z
"processing instructions" has led me to the right spot in the spec, i think i can figure it out from here
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