Unusual error with MSXML

Chris Maden crism at ora.com
Mon Nov 3 16:12:58 GMT 1997


[Ben Trafford]
> 	Has anybody tried out Microsoft's latest download of MSXML?
> I'm finding that parsing the HTML 4.0 DTD causes it to crash
> out. Here's the error:

Why are you parsing the HTML 4.0 DTD with an XML parser?  It's not
XML; it uses AND groups and exclusions.

True, MSXML should probably fail more gracefully on non-XML data, but
hey - it's beta.

-Chris
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