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Hi, over a year ago ([1]), Jonathan Marsh wrote: > OK, here is the current plan of record for us to address the two > important conformance issues that have been raised: > > Q) IE rejects characters above 0x10000. > A) This is just plain bug, and we are going to fix this. > > Q) IE doesn't crash on control characters. > A) We are planning to still allow these to be displayed, but flag them as > "not well-formed" using Julian's or a similar style sheet, so that the > user knows there is a problem. > > The soonest we could have this fix available would be the MSXML SP3 > release (SP2 already shipped with IE6 and Windows XP). So SP3 is the SP > currently in development. I can't give a definite date for SP3, and > there is always the possibility that natural disaster or something else > could change plans. These are the standard "God-willing" disclaimers, > though; we are committed to doing both of these things. I note that after installing MSXML3SP3, IE6 continues to display XML files with illegal characters without any warning. Julian [1] <http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200109/msg00368.html> -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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