From 5799a741ce7ca2321e084516d67575babcce7e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Retter <adam.retter@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 00:25:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [bugfix] fn:parse-xml-fragment#1 should return a
 document-node() when there is an XML document that has a XML declaration

---
 .../java/org/exist/xquery/functions/fn/ParsingFunctions.java    | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/exist-core/src/main/java/org/exist/xquery/functions/fn/ParsingFunctions.java b/exist-core/src/main/java/org/exist/xquery/functions/fn/ParsingFunctions.java
index 792a3e9704b..356df7ee98a 100644
--- a/exist-core/src/main/java/org/exist/xquery/functions/fn/ParsingFunctions.java
+++ b/exist-core/src/main/java/org/exist/xquery/functions/fn/ParsingFunctions.java
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ private Sequence parse(final String xmlContent, final Sequence[] args) throws XP
 
     private ValidationReport validate(final String xmlContent, final SAXAdapter saxAdapter) throws XPathException {
         final String xml;
-	    if (isCalledAs("parse-xml-fragment")) {
+	    if (isCalledAs("parse-xml-fragment") && !xmlContent.toLowerCase().startsWith("<?xml ")) {
             xml = "<" + FRAGMENT_WRAPPER_NAME + ">" + xmlContent + "</" + FRAGMENT_WRAPPER_NAME + ">";
         } else {
 	        xml = xmlContent;