RE: [xml] Bug Issue?

["Stefan Willmert" <stefanw intellanet com>]

Guess i'll just contact microsoft and ask them to change their systems to be
more compatible with industry specifications. :-)

-stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: xml-admin gnome org [mailto:xml-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of Sean
Middleditch
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:31 AM
To: xml gnome org
Subject: RE: [xml] Bug Issue?


On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 12:28, Stefan Willmert wrote:
> I understand the equivalancy. So in the case of the
>
> <textarea name="name" rows="5" cols="50"/>
>
> tag, internet explorer fills the textarea with the html data following
this
> tag. In order to
> create an empty textarea, internet explorer needs
>
> <textarea name="name" rows="5" cols="50"></textarea>
>
> Would you consider this a browser incompatability?

Ya.  The former is completely valid XML.  It's invalid HTML.  HTML !=
XML.  They're just both very similar.  (Both are derived from SGML.)

You might be able to get Internet Explorer working properly if you
specify the XHTML Strict DTD - not sure on that.

> Forgive me for my lack of understanding regarding XML specifications.
>
> -stefan willmert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: Stefan Willmert
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Bug Issue?
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:54:20AM -0500, Stefan Willmert wrote:
> > I've noticed similar issues, such as a pocket pc browser requiring <br>
or
> > <br></br> but not <br/>. If the xml/xslt processor is replacing empty
tags
> > with singularly closed tags, i would call this a bug.
>
>   No, from the XML specifications, XML Infoset, and XPath data model,
> <br></br> and <br/> are *stricly equivalent*. The only specification
> where there is some kind of discussion about this is the XHTML1
> specification
> it's a non-normative appendix, and based only on the support of XHTML1
> for older SGML-HTML based browsers. It is definitely not a bug.
>   If you have troubles with <br></br> vs. <br/> then that mean that
> it's an XHTML1 processing chain and one of the software layer is simply
> not XML conformant. Make sure you use the appropriate XHTML1 doctype
> in your document and recent libxml2 versions will serialize the XML
> with the baroque recipes required to try to avoid breaking those non-XML
> tools when fed with XML.
>
> Daniel
>
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