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Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support



* Joshua Allen wrote:
>>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?!?"

You should probably hang out on some of those microsoft.ALL XML
newsgroups and listen to Microsoft customers who don't understand
why their document "works" in Internet Explorer but doesn't when
they try to use it withing some MSXML using application...
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