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Hello all, I ran into these funky tags when I was working on a possible submission to the Google programming contest. I thought they were some kind of wierd CDATA tag, but then discovered they're Microsoft "Smart Tags". For what they do I would have thought a processing instruction <?if IE script language="javascript" ie5=1 end if?> would have been more XML compatible. Polluted tags to "extend" XML... Here's the URL I found pointing to the MSDN website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/default.asp?url=/code/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/026/002/285/msdncompositedoc.xml Cheers! +Will Gilreath *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/5/2002 at 5:55 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: >At 2:45 PM -0700 8/5/02, Ramin Firoozye wrote: > >>There's a fairly well-known web-site that returns: >> >><!--[if IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=1;</script><![endif]--> >><![if !IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=0;</script><![endif]> >>... > >This is not well-formed XML, not even close. The problem is the <! >outside the comment. If the site claims this is XML, then the site is >wrong. However, possibly the site is only serving HTML, not XML or >XHTML. >-- > >+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ >| Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | >+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ >| XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | >| http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | >| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | >+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ >| Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | >| Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | >+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an >initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > >The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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