title: Do I need to keep the xml header in an svg file when embedding it in the web page
body: <p>I have an SVG image that I want to embed on a web page (inside a html file)</p>
  
  <p>I created the image with Adobe Illustrator and it contains the following headers:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  
  &lt;!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
       viewBox="0 0 462.219 381.915" enable-background="new 0 0 462.219 381.915" xml:space="preserve"&gt;
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Do I need the xml and DOCTYPE declarations? Or just embedding the contents of the <code>&lt;svg&gt;</code> tag is fine?</p>