Greetings! It is Friday and my brain is more Fri than day at the moment. I am trying to get XML::Generator to do what i want -- produce an XML declaration that looks like this:

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

Here is my code:

use XML::Generator;

my $gen = XML::Generator->new(
    conformance => 'strict',
    version     => '1.0',
    encoding    => 'UTF-8',
    standalone  => undef,
);

print $gen->xml( $gen->foo() );
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As you can see, i am explicitly setting standalone to undef which, according to the docs, is suppose to prevent the attribute from being printed in the declaration. However, this does not work for me -- this is what i get:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

I have notice in my trial and (many) errors that if i comment out the conformance => 'strict', line, then NO attribute will be added to the declaration. It's like i'm damned if i do or damned if don't. At this point I am wondering why I don't just add the string myself. :/

If anyone can see what i am doing wrong then please let me know. Thanks in advance!

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