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   Re: [xml-dev] CDATA strangeness

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At 2:45 PM -0700 8/5/02, Ramin Firoozye wrote:

>There's a fairly well-known web-site that returns:
>
><!--[if IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=1;</script><![endif]-->
><![if !IE]><script language=javascript>ie5=0;</script><![endif]>
>...

This is not well-formed XML, not even close. The problem is the <! 
outside the comment. If the site claims this is XML, then the site is 
wrong. However, possibly the site is only serving HTML, not XML or 
XHTML.
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