[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XHTML DTDs failing in IE5
Andrew Layman wrote: > > In this list and in others, there have been strong and conflicting > opinions expressed on what would be the best behavior of a parser, and no > settled standard exists. I can't buy this. The W3C specifications for XML and for namespaces are quite settled ... and _neither_ one places a requirement that declared "xmlns*" attributes must have "#FIXED" default values. In fact, the statements that exist make it clear that from the XML 1.0 syntax point of view, "xmlns*" are like other attributes ... which may be defaulted or not, and hence may omit (or include) "#FIXED" depending on what a given DTD author chooses to do. > I do not, in fact, know that the IE5 > rules are the ultimately best rules; what we can say in their favor is that > because they are conservative, they do not encourage the creation of > documents that are accepted by MSXML and yet are later rejected by > conformant parsers after standards have been worked out. Sound like you're saying it's conservative to treat MSXML as the holder of the standards, rather than the W3C documents. That's not a very popular attitude outside of Redmond! In a standards context, "conservative" means implementing only (and exactly!) what the specifications say. I don't think this is what Microsoft has done in this case. Speculating on the reasons why may be amusing, but I'd rather see this bug fixed (soon!) instead. - Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
|
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
|