RE: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate?

["Sall, Ken" <ksall@xxxxxxx>]

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
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> -----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
> 
> 
> 
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