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Re: IE display unparsed entities (e.g., GIF images)?

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• Subject: Re: IE display unparsed entities (e.g., GIF images)?
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 20:59:44 -0400
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[Roger L. Costello]
>
>
> "It is now up to an application reading the XML document to recognize
> the unparsed entity and display it."
>
> I take that to mean that I should be able to drop the above XML instance
> document into Internet Explorer and the browser will read in the GIF
> image and display it (surrounded by <Roger> tags, I presume).
>

Well, it means that it is up to the application to do whatever it likes with
it.  The parser tells it "here is a GIF image, you take it from here".
Whether  displaying the image is the thing to do is also up to the
application.

Cheers,

Tom P

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