RE: FW: ] Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips, #5

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Bayes
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:12 PM
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> Subject: RE:  FW: ] Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips, #5
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> Julian,
> > It does, but it instatiates MSXML3 in a "backward
> > compatibilty mode" where it inherits some of MSXML's bugs.
> >
> What is "backward compatibilty mode"?

It seems to be a mode in which

1) a set of control characters which isn't allowed in XML is accepted
anyway,

2) another set of characters which *is* allowed in XML is rejected (this
David C.'s problem).

I have *some* sympathy for 1) and no sympathy at all for 2).



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