Subject: RE: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate? From: "Sall, Ken" <ksall@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:36:43 -0500 |
Thanks, Stephen. I've added an example that illustrates your point that IE5 detects DTD syntax errors. http://members.home.com/kensall/tests/collection1bugsdtd.xml http://members.home.com/kensall/tests/collection1bugs.dtd However, if anyone from Microsoft can explain why IE5 doesn't actually use the DTD to validate the document (the way that IE5 Beta 2 did), I'd appreciate it. This problem will be published in an article shortly (in the larger context of positive things you can do with IE5 with XML/XSL) and it would be great to state correctly what Microsoft plans w.r.t. DTD processing. TIA - Ken Sall ksall@xxxxxxx, kensall@xxxxxxxx - Century Computing, Inc. http://www.cen.com/ - NG-HTML: Next Generation HTML http://www.cen.com/ng-html/ - XML at Web Developers Virtual Lib http://WDVL.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/ - MW3: Motif on the World Wide Web http://www.cen.com/mw3/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Ransom [mailto:sransom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 1:52 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate? > > > > It doesn't appear that IE5 (March 18th release) uses the > DTD to validate > > XML, as did the IE5 Beta 2 release. Has anyone been able to > make IE5 detect > > when a doc doesn't follow the rules of the DTD that it references? > > I agree that IE5 appears to "lose" the errors in a well > formed but invalid XML > document (ie one written in proper XML but which fails to meet its DTD > definition). > > I note however that IE5 is aware of the DTD even though it > will pass through a > failing XML document. This can be shown by adding a line of > XXXX's into the DTD > itself (thus breaking the DTD's well-formedness). IE5 will > give you an error > message identifying the XXXX's as incorrect. > > Stephen > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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