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> >Sorry, this one is just ludicrous. Notepad isn't claiming > >to be parsing XML. It's not at all like having the IE6 XML > >parser default to believing in "XML" that clearly is broken; > >it's not creating/perpetuating an interop problem. > > > >Apples compare best against other apples, not oranges. [ deletia restored ] > Neither is IE. I believe my very first response to this thread pointed > out that IE is not an XML parser, and there is no such thing as an "IE6 > XML parser" IE is certainly trying to process these alleged XML files; it's displaying them using the same stylesheet rules it uses for XML. It's accepting them into XML processing flows. And surely it's got a parser inside, to do all that. The XML spec places requirements on _processors_ such as IE6; those are intended to apply to application layers, like IE6. If it were treating them like NotePad and displaying them like text (well, WordPad is a better example because Notepad only handles CRLF style line ends) your argument would make sense. But it doesn't, so ...
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