Re: Should `auto-coding-functions' be mode-specific?

[Ralf Mattes]

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:26:22 -0700, Kevin Rodgers wrote:


> The other default element of auto-coding-functions is
> sgml-xml-auto-coding-function, which looks for the encoding specified in
> the XML declaration but is careful to ensure that the declaration occurs
> at the beginning of the buffer (optionally preceded by whitespace, as
> allowed by the XML spec). 

Oh, thank's for looking at this: this is a bug :-)
The XML spec _doesn't  allow whitespace in front of the XML declaration -
the only thing explicitly allowed is the BOM (byte order mark), and that
_isn't_ whitespace. 

 Cheers Ralf Mattes