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Hello all,
I ran into these funky tags when I was working on a possible submission to the Google programming contest. I thought they were some kind of wierd CDATA tag, but then discovered they're Microsoft "Smart Tags". For what they do I would have thought a processing instruction <?if IE script language="javascript" ie5=1 end if?> would have been more XML compatible. Polluted tags to "extend" XML...
Here's the URL I found pointing to the MSDN website:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/default.asp?url=/code/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/026/002/285/msdncompositedoc.xml
Cheers! +Will Gilreath
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On 8/5/2002 at 5:55 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>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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