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And that has caused no end of problems in other language efforts. They read the spec, assume they can put the external entities in, then IE barfs on it when anyone tries to browse it. We tell them, "put some local copies on the disk" and they say, "that's not what the spec says, that's not the web way" we reply "but you will produce a hotspot if you do that and the web won't like that either" and they huff and puff and blame XML and Microsoft. Folks, the external entity idea based on a common URL identifier doesn't work worth beans. Why not? MS does know and it has been tested to death. Why was it not fixed? Maybe URL/URI management of a common resources is not such a good idea. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@m...] An example: try to browse: http://www.openhealth.org/ASTM/operative.report.example.xml in IE5 (I'm using version 5.50.4522.1800): It hangs! This is due to external parameter entities at URLs within the DTD which is at a URL (i.e. the same document validates and browses just fine when the document and DTD and entities are on the local disc). Seems that not alot of work has gone into testing the IE5 DTD related code under a large variety of conditions -- perhaps this reflects the apparent fact that not alot of Microsoft's customers think this is important. (note that the offending modules are XHTML Basic -- so don't blame us in the ASTM XML Healthcare committee -- except perhaps for wanting to use XHTML Basic!) Other validators such as the W3C's fail to process URL redirections etc. etc. (as I said subtle issues that might -only- come out if the systems were being extensively used). Just my opinion.
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