Cart
|
[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support
 At 02:50 9-09-2001, Joshua Allen wrote: >This is getting pretty ridiculous. IE is not an XML parser, period. No, you're right. MSXML is an XML parser (or claims to be). That MSXML has a mode that allows it to parse things that are not XML is questionable. That MSIE delegates the handling of XML entities to MSXML in that mode is unacceptable. >The XML spec has nothing to say about what the correct behavior of a >browser is, No - but the parser is *required* not to "continue normal processing (i.e., it must not continue to pass character data and information about the document's logical structure to the application in the normal way)." Microsoft *wanted* this language to avoid the bugward-compatibility wars of 1996-1998. One of the editors of the spec is from Microsoft. Now that they're in the dominant browser position, we see what that was worth. I am not usually a big Microsoft fan. But I have openly lauded their efforts at standards compliance since Jean joined the SGML ERB. Oh, my friends mocked me - they said it wouldn't last. "Embrace and extend - it'll all end in tears, you'll see." But I was young and foolish, those dozens of Internet years ago. Now I see their wisdom, alas, too late. >That is like >saying that the UNIX 'cat' command is broke because it does not fatally >error when encountering a paragraph marker in a text stream that has an >XML declaration at the beginning, because 'cat' "does not provide any >mechanism for correction." Neither Notepad nor cat claims to be a conforming XML application, nor to include same. MSXML does, as does MSIE. There are substantial bugs that can impair the long-term health of the content on the Internet. At the least, Microsoft needs to acknowledge that they are bugs, rather than arguing that the specification is broken; that's just Humpty Dumpty talk. And if your assertions about Radio Userland and Manila are accurate, then they have significant bugs, too. All the glass houses need to be boarded up, I don't care who's throwing the stones. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://www.hmmci.com/ > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA 
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! 
Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|
|||||||||
