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Joshua, > ... > > parser/XSLT processor, the IE programmers deliberately > > chose to cripple it rather than support standard XML! > > IE6 uses MSXML3. IE6 does not "cripple" it in any way that I am aware > of. I believe that IE6 defaults to be compatible with older documents > (which MSXML3 now rejects if they use high ASCII characters and so on). > Again, if you are saying that IE kills documents that load fine in MSXML > without IE, then please give some specific examples, as that would be a > bug. See, this is *exactly* my problem with Microsoft's behaviour. A conformance bug is reported in a newsgroup; in this case on Microsoft's news server: <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&selm=PNrJsjsGBHA.181%40cppss bbsa01.microsoft.com> The problem is even *acknowleged* as a bug. Then nothing happens -- next time it's discussed, Microsoft says "please give specific examples, as that would be a bug". How many times does it need to be reported until something happens? A similar thing is happening with the WebDAV support in MS Exchange / Sharepoint (I mention this here because WebDAV uses XML as marshalling format). A bug has been reported multiple times and through different channels, yet when the problem is dicussed again: <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&selm=Oke51leMBHA.1676%40tkms ftngp05> all the feedback we get is "oh, if this is the case this would be a bug", and then... nothing. To be fair, other companies have even bigger problems. The WebDAV support in Oracle IFS is utterly broken (to the level that it can't be used at all even with a tolerant WebDAV client like Microsoft's webfolders): <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001AprJun/0253.html> However, Oracle doesn't seem to care. Using words like "XML" and "WebDAV" for marketing hype seems to be popular, actually *implementing* them seems not.
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