[issue19832] XML version is ignored

[Tobias Kuhn]

New submission from Tobias Kuhn:

The first line of an XML file should be something like this:

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

The XML parser of xml.sax, however, seems to ignore the value of "version":

    <?xml version='X' encoding='UTF-8'?>

This should give an error, but it doesn't. It's not a very serious problem, but this should raise an error to be standards-compliant.

I experienced this bug in the rdflib package:

    https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues/347

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components: XML
messages: 204720
nosy: tkuhn
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: XML version is ignored
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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