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RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 14:48:27 +0200

Or an even more useful approach: modify defaultss.xsl to

a) flag the problem in the first line ("This document is not well-formed
according to the XML recommendation because it contains control characters
outside the legal range. Conforming XML parsers will reject this document.
Click here to navigate to the first occurence of an illegal character.")

b) Highlight the offending characters.

Feel free to use the modified stylesheet in future IE / MSXML service packs.

Julian



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@g...]
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 1:06 PM
> To: David Brownell; Joshua Allen; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support
>
>
> So,
>
> if the whole point is to allow IE6 to display a non wellformed XML file --
> why isn't it displayed as text (instead of the DHTML view that's
> the result
> of applying defaultss.xsl)?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:08 AM
> > To: Joshua Allen; xml-dev@l...
> > Subject: Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support
> >
> >
> > Sorry, this one is just ludicrous.  Notepad isn't claiming
> > to be parsing XML.  It's not at all like having the IE6 XML
> > parser default to believing in "XML" that clearly is broken;
> > it's not creating/perpetuating an interop problem.
> >
> > Apples compare best against other apples, not oranges.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
> > To: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>; <xml-dev@l...>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 12:46 AM
> > Subject: RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support
> >
> >
> > >No, they chose to penalize everyone else's XML systems. If that IE
> > >parser accepts something and Oracle's correctly finds the error,
> > >are the punters supposed to know that MS messed up and Oracle is
> > >correct?
> >
> > Should notepad.exe also alert users to anything that might fail in
> > Oracle or MSXML3?  When someone loads the invalid file in MSXML3, it
> > bombs -- does the user say "Notepad let me parse that file!  Who is
> > right, Microsoft or Microsoft?!?"
> >
> >
> >
> >
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