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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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