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Re: [xml-dev] IE display unparsed entities (e.g., GIF images)?

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Thomas B. Passin <>
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2002-07-04T00:59:44Z
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Re: [xml-dev] IE display unparsed entities (e.g., GIF images)?
[Roger L. Costello]
>
>
> "It is now up to an application reading the XML document to recognize
> the unparsed entity and display it."
>
> I take that to mean that I should be able to drop the above XML instance
> document into Internet Explorer and the browser will read in the GIF
> image and display it (surrounded by <Roger> tags, I presume).
>

Well, it means that it is up to the application to do whatever it likes with
it.  The parser tells it "here is a GIF image, you take it from here".
Whether  displaying the image is the thing to do is also up to the
application.

Cheers,

Tom P
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