Re: [topicmaps-comment] xtm.xml in IE

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@sun.com>]

Nikita Ogievetsky wrote:
> 
> I reported this to MS last December,
> they sort of acknowledged this bug in MSXML (that ships with IE 5)
> and recommended installing MSXML3 in replace mode.
> 
> Now IE6 ships with MSXML3.
> It does open XTM files that have XTM namespace explicitly declared.
> For example, http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/core.xtm or
> ISO topic maps that I converted to XTM
> (i.e. Kal's music topic map:
> http://www.cogx.com/xslt4tm2xtm/music-xtm.xml)
> 
> It gives the following message when XTM namespace is
> not declared explicitly in the document:
> 
> Use of default namespace declaration attribute in DTD not supported. Line 3,
> Position 54

Gak! In other words, they've written DTD-incompatibility-with-namespaces
into their product. Whatever happened to thinking about compatibility with
XML 1.0 rather than XML+Namespaces? (DTDs *are* XML 1.0, like it or not)

I've never had an installation problem with linux or Solaris or Java,
though I've had to rebuild some libraries on linux that *I* screwed up.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                         <mailto:murray.altheim&#x40;sun.com>
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