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At 17:25 7-09-2001, Joshua Allen wrote: >This falls into the category of not breaking stuff that already works. >The whole "blueberry" debate should have made it apparent that there are >many, many real people who produce XML that has such characters in it. >We fixed the XML parser to correctly fail on such characters, but >unfortunately the IE team does not agree with your assessment that it >would be a good thing for customers to have us break their existing >apps. This is quite ironic. The well-formedness fatal error provisions are in the XML Recommendation at the explicit request of the Microsoft and Netscape representatives, to prevent precisely this situation. Oh, well. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://www.hmmci.com/ > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA
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