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RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support

  • From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@m...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 01:26:38 -0700

RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support
At 17:25 7-09-2001, Joshua Allen wrote:
>This falls into the category of not breaking stuff that already works.
>The whole "blueberry" debate should have made it apparent that there are
>many, many real people who produce XML that has such characters in it.
>We fixed the XML parser to correctly fail on such characters, but
>unfortunately the IE team does not agree with your assessment that it
>would be a good thing for customers to have us break their existing
>apps.

This is quite ironic.  The well-formedness fatal error provisions are in 
the XML Recommendation at the explicit request of the Microsoft and 
Netscape representatives, to prevent precisely this situation.

Oh, well.

-Chris
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