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I'm working on a servlet which when sent the url of a data file (as a GET request) will read that file, convert it into our XML equivalent and stream the XML back to the request originator. The servlet works fine but to test it i'm using Internet Explorer (5.002314.1003) - the servlet gets the request, reads the file and sends back the xml ok but the browser strips out all the tags and just displays the data (if I do view source I see the well-formed XML as expected). In fact I get exactly the same result if i rename an zzz.xml file to zzz.html and load it into the browser. This leads me to think that IE thinks my data is not XML. But in the servlet I am setting the content type to text/xml and if when the data is incorrectly displayed in IE I right-click on the background and get the Document Properties up, it says XML Document. What I'd like to happen is for IE to recognise the data as XML and to parse it and display it hierarchically as it would do if i loaded it in from a text file. Is this correct behaviour or is it a bug with IE? Is it fixed in later versions? Thanks Jon
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