[thelist] ?xml &c. declaration

[Jonathon Isaac Swiderski]

Can anyone on thelist give me a good reason for using the xml declaration, (ie
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>) in a page?  It tosses IE6 into
bass-ackward mode, screwing up pages like this one
http://cs.oberlin.edu/~jswiders/ (there should be a third image on the left, in
the middle; it shows without the ?xml line); as tom just mentioned it
occasionally gets displayed as text or forces older browsers to thinking it's
not HTML & trying to download the page.  I'd like to leave this line in, as it
*is* part of the recommendation for XHTML (or seems to be; see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#docconf under the "example of a minimal XHTML
document."), but I can't think of any reason I should leave it in.

Anyone?

thanks
jonathon

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