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You could also declare the attribute value as fixed, that, too, would make IE5 happy. (By the way, as mentioned in some earlier threads, the IE5 MSXML very-conservative interpretation of the namespaces spec, which interpretation is the cause of this trouble, will be changed in the next rev of the parser.) -----Original Message----- From: ht@c... [mailto:ht@c...] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:05 AM To: Tim Bray Cc: xml-dev@x...; connolly@w... Subject: Re: Irony heaped on irony Tim Bray <tbray@t...> writes: > The namespaces rec hardwires the prefix "xml:" to the namespace name > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace - until recently, if you dereferenced > that URL, you got a nice helpful human-readable note saying "this namespace > is for XML, go check out http://www.w3.org/XML and <a couple of other useful > pointers which I forget>". > > Today, I went and looked at it, and there is now some sort of XML schema > fragment there which is unreadable in MSIE5 because of an IE5 bug, and > unreadable in the NS6 beta because there's no stylesheet. Its function > seems to be limited to providing declarations for xml:lang and xml:space. > > I'm wondering if this is a step forward. -Tim This is my 'fault', I guess, although it seems to me it's a problem with the browsers you mention in the first instance. I could remove the DOCTYPE statement, that would make IE5 happy. Is that a good idea? I could add a CSS stylesheet (do you seriously mean that NS6 beta won't display XML _unless_ it has a CSS stylesheet :-(, if you feel like writing one. I could move the schema, but that would break lots of _other_ schemas, including the schema for schemas, which depend on it. Seems to me having something of mime type text/xml at the namespace URI for XML is not something we should have to apologise for. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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