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I just ran through the tests on my machine and it seems to be working OK. My laptop is Chinese Win2000 Advanced with MSXML May. I am probably doing something wrong with the test? Can you help me get a repro? If I can repro the bug I'll make sure it gets submitted to the bug database. Thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick JELLIFFE [mailto:ricko@g...] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:16 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: IE 5.5 broken still > > > Downloading IE5.5 and running against the Chinese test suite at > http://www.ascc.net/xml/test/en/utf-8/index.html > I see it still is broken: the tests in the second table "Well-formed > XML, > Stylesheet, no DOCTYPE declaration, no namespace" are the > ones affected > when I tried it today (Chinese Win98). > > When using a CSS stylesheet with XML, it still converts > <?xxx?> > to a PI which it then strips out. > > IE 5.5 gets Big5 and GB2312 and UTF-8 handling correctly > still. (On that > issue, I need to make some test up to handle switching > between Big5 and > UTF-8 files at the same site.) > > This is a problem that MS has known for more than a year: I > had an email > with one of their engineers. It is slack to get delimiting wrong, and > slacker to do it as a matter of policy. > > Come on Microsoft, get it right. The message we get is not "oh we are > looking after the problems that customers report rather than niceties" > (which no-one believes) but "we do not have a craftsmanlike > attitude to > making our products correct". > > If my data has <? in it, I don't want it to disappear from view. > > Rick Jelliffe >
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