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

Subject: RE: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate?
From: David Schach <davidsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:51:43 -0800
You wrote

	.. So, what gets displayed? Presumably, some
	fixed-up, error-corrected tree. I expect that the error-correction
is
	not documented. So, back to the mess that HTML is in - no-one knows
	what the parse tree is. I fail to see how you can call this a
feature.

When browsing XML with IE5, ill formed XML is not fixed up. The parse tree
is the parse tree you would get with a non validating parser. There isn't
any undocumented magic going on here.


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