RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support

[Stuart Naylor <indtec@eircom.net>]

Reading through this I guess the main thread of the story is pro MS v pro
Netscape.
Personally I don't really give a damn as long as we don't get what we have
now.
Various browsers can accept HTML with errors and have AI to provide the
missing gaps. The main problem of this is that the error processing changes
from one dev house to another. This I believe contributes greatly to what I
call NTSIAB (Never the same in another browser).
I dislike the idea intensely of any deviation from set standards as HTML was
a perfectly good mark-up until it was bastardised in a war of vendor
functionality.
I can see a major reason why a non well formed XML should return errors
though. In respect to presenting data and URL data access then if the
document is 'non well formed' maybe it would be better to crash out rather
than to continue on regardless.


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
Sent: 09 September 2001 12:06
To: David Brownell; Joshua Allen; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: Bad News on IE6 XML Support


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@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:08 AM
> To: Joshua Allen; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> 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@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?!?"
>
>
>
>
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