[wp-xmlrpc] what clients send an XML declaration in XML-RPC requests?

[Brandon Turner]

Windows Live Writer by default sends:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

However, we allow users to change the encoding(though, I believe there are bugs in Wordpress that always assume utf-8, or at least plugins that might always expect utf-8), so it is possible WLW could send something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

Windows Live Writer generates its XML payload using the .NET class XmlTextWriter which generates this declaration.  I would imagine most .NET based would do the same thing.

I am also pretty interested in what brings this topic up.  

-Brandon

-----Original Message-----
From: wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Jalkut
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 9:18 AM
To: wp-xmlrpc at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] what clients send an XML declaration in XML-RPC requests?

Hi Joseph - MarsEdit does include the preamble and it looks like your example but also includes content-encoding information:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Is there some context for why you're asking about this? Just curious if we can help brainstorm an answer to whatever is on your mind.

Daniel

On Jul 24, 2009, at 7:00pm, Joseph Scott wrote:

>
> One of the first things that WordPress does when processing an XML- 
> RPC request is look for an XML declaration, something like:
>
> 	<?xml version="1.0"?>
>
> It strips this off if it is found so that it can parse the rest of the 
> request as XML.
>
> To those of you out there that are writing blog clients for WordPress 
> I have a question.  Do you include this declaration at the top of your 
> requests?  If so, is it identical to this one or is it different?
>
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