RE: [xsl] FW: ] Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips, #5

["Chris Bayes" <chris at bayes dot co dot uk>]

> > Julian,
> > > It does, but it instatiates MSXML3 in a "backward 
> compatibilty mode" 
> > > where it inherits some of MSXML's bugs.
> > >
> > What is "backward compatibilty mode"?
> 
> It seems to be a mode in which
> 
> 1) a set of control characters which isn't allowed in XML is 
> accepted anyway,
> 
> 2) another set of characters which *is* allowed in XML is 
> rejected (this David C.'s problem).
> 
> I have *some* sympathy for 1) and no sympathy at all for 2).

I agree. But is it a real mode or just that it is an old implementation
of msxsl2 v2.x that calls itself v3?
I guess the only way to find out is remove all msxml versions and ie6
and then re-install ie and see what happens when you try and transform
with script. But I'm not going to try that.
If it is the latest version of msxml and the encoding is utf-8 then it
should support utf-8 and nothing else. If there is no encoding specified
then I guess it can go through the machinations of working out the
encoding and drop into some "broken mode".
After all the flaming ms has had over the bad support of xml/xsl in ie5
you would think that they would at least try and get ie6 right!!!

Ciao Chris

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