RE: Status on IE6 and XML Conformance

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

> From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:19 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Status on IE6 and XML Conformance
>
>
>
> 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.

So what will happen if the file is malformed, but carries an XSLT stylesheet
PI? Will the content still be transformed, or will the changed default
stylesheet be used? Obviously, I'd prefer the latter...