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RE: MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters

• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>,"Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>,"XML DEV" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters
• From: "Praj Joshi" <pjoshi@m...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:55:47 -0700
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• Thread-topic: MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters

The behavior for 1st case below is fixed in MSXML30 SP3. IE rejects
characters above 0x10000.

The second case for control characters is fixed in SP4 for MSXML30. (to
be released by end of this year)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] 
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:50 PM
To: Julian Reschke; XML DEV
Subject: RE:  MSXML3SP3 vs illegal characters

Actually, I'm the one who made the promise to have that fixed.  We had
the fix checked in and preliminary tested about a year ago, and were
just waiting for the right ship vehicle (MSXML4 would not have worked
since IE only uses MSXML3).  I am checking now to see

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@g...]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 5:04 AM
> To: XML DEV
>
> Hi,
>
> over a year ago ([1]), Jonathan Marsh wrote:
>
> > OK, here is the current plan of record for us to address the two
> > important conformance issues that have been raised:
> >
> > Q) IE rejects characters above 0x10000.
> > A) This is just plain bug, and we are going to fix this.
> >
> > Q) IE doesn't crash on control characters.
> > A) We are planning to still allow these to be displayed, but flag
them
> as
> >    "not well-formed" using Julian's or a similar style sheet, so
that
> the
> >    user knows there is a problem.
> >
> > The soonest we could have this fix available would be the MSXML SP3
> > release (SP2 already shipped with IE6 and Windows XP).  So SP3 is
the SP
> > currently in development.  I can't give a definite date for SP3, and
> > there is always the possibility that natural disaster or something
else
> > could change plans.  These are the standard "God-willing"
disclaimers,
> > though; we are committed to doing both of these things.
>
> I note that after installing MSXML3SP3, IE6 continues to display XML
files
> with illegal characters without any warning.
>
> Julian
>
> [1] <http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200109/msg00368.html>
>
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