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NEEDS DOCUMENTATION
Only use this if you do not want the XML declaration to be written; this object is ignored by the XML writer. Otherwise, instantiate your own XMLDecl and add it to the document.
Note that XML 1.1 documents must include an XML declaration
 
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 93
def XMLDecl.default
  rv = XMLDecl.new( "1.0" )
  rv.nowrite
  rv
end
             
             
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 18
          def initialize(version=DEFAULT_VERSION, encoding=nil, standalone=nil)
@writethis = true
@writeencoding = !encoding.nil?
                  if version.kind_of? XMLDecl
                          super()
                          @version = version.version
                          self.encoding = version.encoding
  @writeencoding = version.writeencoding
                          @standalone = version.standalone
                  else
                          super()
                          @version = version
                          self.encoding = encoding
                          @standalone = standalone
                  end
                  @version = DEFAULT_VERSION if @version.nil?
          end
             
             
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 57
def ==( other )
  other.kind_of?(XMLDecl) and
  other.version == @version and
  other.encoding == self.encoding and
  other.standalone == @standalone
end
             
             
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 103
def dowrite
  @writethis = true
end
             
             
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 77
def encoding=( enc )
  if enc.nil?
    self.old_enc = "UTF-8"
    @writeencoding = false
  else
    self.old_enc = enc
    @writeencoding = true
  end
  self.dowrite
end
             
             
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 107
def inspect
  START.sub(/\\/u, '') + " ... " + STOP.sub(/\\/u, '')
end
             
             
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 99
def nowrite
  @writethis = false
end
             
            Ignored. There must be no whitespace before an XML declaration
Ignored
Ignored
 
               # File rexml/xmldecl.rb, line 46
          def write(writer, indent=-1, transitive=false, ie_hack=false)
return nil unless @writethis or writer.kind_of? Output
                  writer << START.sub(/\\/u, '')
if writer.kind_of? Output
  writer << " #{content writer.encoding}"
else
  writer << " #{content encoding}"
end
                  writer << STOP.sub(/\\/u, '')
          end