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Richard Tobin in http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-Jun-1999/0185.html cites my earlier message http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-May-1999/0394.html describing the fairly restrictive rules that the IE5 MSXML parser enforces for use of namespaces and DTDs. I want to emphasize that my earlier message was intended to clarify what the actual behavior of MSXML is, not to describe what the best behavior should be. In this list and in others, there have been strong and conflicting opinions expressed on what would be the best behavior of a parser, and no settled standard exists. I believe that people will continue to post opinions on what a parser should do. I do not, in fact, know that the IE5 rules are the ultimately best rules; what we can say in their favor is that because they are conservative, they do not encourage the creation of documents that are accepted by MSXML and yet are later rejected by conformant parsers after standards have been worked out. As we are gaining experience with namespaces, this seems a prudent course. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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