Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

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@microsoft.com>
To: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>; <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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?!?"