Megginson and XMLNews

David Megginson david at megginson.com
Fri Apr 9 01:55:26 BST 1999


Chris Lovett writes:

 > That is exactly right.  The real problem here is that the
 > www.xmlnews.org server is serving up this DTD with the mime type
 > "text/xml" even though a DTD is strictly NOT an XML document.  If
 > it served it up as plain text then IE5 would not trigger the XML
 > Mime Viewer and this client side error would be avoided.

Actually, www.xmlnews.org is serving it up as text/plain -- MSIE must
be acting on the .dtd extension.


All the best,


David

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