cannot put XML declaration in DTD?

[Matt (archive)]

For DTD, we cannot put XML declaration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>. Is that correct? I tried that and it will yield error "Cannot have a DTD declaration outside of a DTD." But XML declaration is ok to put in XML and XSD.

Please advise. thanks!!

 

[Richard Tobin]

For DTD, we cannot put XML declaration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>. Is that correct?

No. A DTD can have a XML declaration (technically a text declaration).

You'll need to post your whole file if you want someone to work out what's wrong. Try it with some other parsers and see if you get a more comprehensible error message.

-- Richard