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So, if the whole point is to allow IE6 to display a non wellformed XML file -- why isn't it displayed as text (instead of the DHTML view that's the result of applying defaultss.xsl)? > -----Original Message----- > From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:08 AM > To: Joshua Allen; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support > > > 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. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...> > To: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>; <xml-dev@l...> > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 12:46 AM > Subject: RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support > > > >No, they chose to penalize everyone else's XML systems. If that IE > >parser accepts something and Oracle's correctly finds the error, > >are the punters supposed to know that MS messed up and Oracle is > >correct? > > Should notepad.exe also alert users to anything that might fail in > Oracle or MSXML3? When someone loads the invalid file in MSXML3, it > bombs -- does the user say "Notepad let me parse that file! Who is > right, Microsoft or Microsoft?!?" > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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