RE: XML Conference Tests...

["Hunter, David" <dhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These tests are usually referring to the Java implementation of MSXML, which
was either developed jointly by Microsoft and Data Channel, or by Data
Channel alone, on behalf of Microsoft.  (I'm not sure which.)  In any event,
the Java MSXML is horrible by all accounts, with numerous bugs which nobody
wants to fix, and from the test results, pretty bad conformance as well.

On the other hand, I've been using the COM version of MSXML (which you are
using too if you're just opening XML documents in IE5), and I haven't found
any conformance problems yet.

Of course, since this is the XSL mailing list, I should also mention that
MSXML supports such an old draft of XSL that the language has changed
dramatically from then to now, so for XSL you might want to avoid MSXML and
find another XSL processing application.  If you stay on this mailing list
long enough, you'll find a bunch, I'm sure.  ;-)

David Hunter
david.hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
MediaServ Information Architects
http://www.MediaServ.com


-----Original Message-----
From: John Markor [mailto:john.markor@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 11:47 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: XML Conference Tests...


In order to test some XML Apps that I've been developing, I downloaded the
XML Conference parser test suite.

All through the documentation for the test suite, it was made clear as to
just how bad the MSXML parser is, how it doesn't conform, how it comes up
with bugs that shouldn't be bugs, etc.  Nowhere was it mentioned (that I
could find) what version of the MSXML parser was being tested though.

When I ran the entire test suite through IE5, by simply double-clicking on
the XML file and opening it up.  Each file appeared to give somewhat of a
correct result, i.e., all of the tests that should have failed did, and all
of the test that should have passed, appeared to.  Am I missing something
here?


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