XHTML DTDs failing in IE5

[Brandt Dainow]

I think IE5 is correct.  I saw the same problem with some DTD's from W3C.
My understanding is that #FIXED should preceed a specific value described in
chars.  Isn't that what a xmlns always contains?

Brandt Dainow
bd at internet-etc.com
Internet Etc Ltd
http://www.internet-etc.com

>-----Original Message-----
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>Mark Birbeck
>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 1:21 AM
>To: 'xml-dev at ic.ac.uk'
>Subject: XHTML DTDs failing in IE5
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>Anyone know why the IE5 parser is telling me that the 'xmlns' attribute
>defined on the HTML element "should be #FIXED", when I try to
>use any of
>the DTDs for XHTML? I'd rather not remove !DOCTYPE from the top of my
>XHTML documents if I can avoid it, but I can't apply XSL to the
>documents with it in!
>
>Any comments? Is IE5 at fault, or is it true that xmlns should be
>#FIXED, and so the DTDs are incorrect?
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark
>
>
>
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