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I'm a complete beginner, and having real problems getting my XML declaration to validate to 1.0 strict. Can anyone help?

I've been told to put but when I run it through the W3 validator, it adds some stuff, so it looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0! encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- <?xml version="1.0! encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -->

and says I have 3 errors:

String not closed expecting " or ' Blank needed here parsing XML declaration: '?>' expected

all in the same place, at the first 0 in 

<?xml version="1.0! encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- <?xml version="1.0! encoding="iso-88…

Apologies if this is a really stupid question, but this is my first time writing for the web!

Many thanks!

Fiona
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You have version="1.0!.

Do you mean version="1.0"?

Cameron Skinner
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  • Oh, I knew it would be something silly! Many thanks for good naturedly helping someone so clueless, you're a lifesaver. – Fiona Dec 12 '10 at 18:08