Subject: RE: [xsl] FW: ] Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips, #5 From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:38:02 +0200 |
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David > Carlisle > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:02 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] FW: ] Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips, #5 > > > > > In fact there are so many bugs in IE6 I am surprised it was released. > > The most depressing thing about IE6 is that while they have half heartedly > added XSLT support, it does not (unlike IE5.5+MSXML3/replace mode, which > was really quite a nice XML browser) have any real support for parsing > XML files. > > If you give an XML file to IE6 it does _not_ use MSXML3 to parse it > even though MSXML3 is bundled with the system. It does, but it instatiates MSXML3 in a "backward compatibilty mode" where it inherits some of MSXML's bugs. > In particular it does not accept any characters (or character > references) above 2^16. Which means for example that no valid > MathML files (or XHTML+MathML files) may be browsed using IE6. > IE5.5/MSXML3 accepts them but IE6 reports a fatal error on the DTD > as it uses character references to the math characters added in Unicode > 3.1. This was an intentional "bug compatibility with IE4" decision > as confirmed by Microsft on their msxml newsgroup... > > Despite the fact that XML was conceived as "SGML for the web" > we are told that using a web browser to read XML files is > "just wrong". I don't think this is the official Microsoft statement -- it sounded more like a team member of the XML group who was frustrated by what the IE group was doing. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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