Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate?

[Tom Harding]

> >From: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh at microsoft.com>
> ...
> >This is as designed, not a bug.
> ...
> >The only scenario we could come up with where validation is useful when
> >browsing XML documents is when the browser is used as a development tool,

What about the scenario where a document claims to conform to some well-known DTD?  This
viewpoint seems to show a pretty narrow view of the ways in which XML might be employed.




xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)