xml-dev - Re: IE 5.5 broken still

[mark hu <mark@fintrack.com>]

I did on NT Wks 4.0 with IE 5.01 and Win2000 Pro with IE 5.5 , both works
fine, get the same results as David - is this really a bug ?????? Or there's
something I did wrong.

mark
----- Original Message -----
From: David Valera <dvalera@pcl-hage.nl>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 4:58 AM
Subject: RE: IE 5.5 broken still


>
> > In IE 5.n, go to page
> >
> >  http://www.ascc.net/xml/test/utf-8/text_xml/zh-utf8-0.xml
> >
> > Note the last paragraph reads
> >
> >  The XML header of this file is .
>
> I tried this with IE 5.5 but I got The XML header of this file is <?xml
> encoding="utf-8"?>.
>
> so in my case it renders OK.
>
> Even when I try it at home with IE 5.01 I get the same results as above.
>
> > But view source and you will see that the XML says
> >
> > <data>The XML header of this file is
> > &lt;?xml encoding="utf-8"?&gt;.
> > </data>
> >
> >
> > The CSS handler for XML in IE5 apparantly converts it
> > to HTML without redelimiting the <, and the HTML  renderer
> > strips it as a PI.  As I said, I emailed with an MS engineer before on
> > this issue, so the problem is hardly new.
>
> Could it be that something on your system is outdated? (just a wild guess)
>
> David Valera
>
>