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IE5 xmlns DTD attribute BUG was Re: Use of default namespace declaration
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- Subject: IE5 xmlns DTD attribute BUG was Re: Use of default namespace declaration
- From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden at mediaone dot net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:10:40 -0500
- Cc: <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
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Joshua Allen wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> I think this was lax conformance on part of the earlier parser, and has
> since been tightened. See
> http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm#q7_2.
>
>
Err... no. This is a BUG. Explicitly an xmlns attribute can be defaulted in
a DTD (see section 4.3 in the article you quote above.) This error message
from IE5 is a non-conformance. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names
Namespace Constraint: Prefix Declared if a question remains.
Another BUG in IE5s handling of DTDs ... parsing of DTDs (using the Sept
MSXML3) hangs the browser when the SYSTEM ID is a URI of the form http://...
but not when the same DTD file is located on the local disc. (This behavior
is not constant but reproducable across multiple installations and people in
multiple organizations ... i.e. I am not the only one having this problem).
Jonathan Borden
The Open Healthcare Group
http://www.openhealth.org
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