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Jakub Narebski wrote:

>> The XML declaration forces IE6 into quirks mode, breaking our
>> nice standards compliant stylesheet.
> 
> But isn't it _required_ by XML/XHTML?

As far as I know, it isn't. But even if the specs required it, none of 
the popular browsers do, and since we're talking about a web page 
intended for presentation (as opposed to automated data processing), 
that's what matters.

-- Marcus