Can you get explorer to ignore XML?

R

Robert Moir

P. Burrows said:
When I'm trying to display this page:
http://www.screamproductions.com/ns/weblog.php?id=P115

I get an annoying error message
"The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error
and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. "

I can of course always view it in Opera, but still...
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If the page is XML and you had a program that ignored XML it would
display... nothing.

IE thinks there is an error on the page, one which it cannot work around.
Discussions about whether Explorer or Opera is the right or wrong one aren't
going to solve anything, so I'm afraid that there probably isn't much else
you can do besides continue to view it in Opera... while possibly writing to
the page author!
 
F

Frank S Sohtye

RSS is not supported in IE 6, get IE7beta, get Firefox, or continue to use
Opera.
 
R

Robert Moir

Frank said:
RSS is not supported in IE 6, get IE7beta, get Firefox, or continue
to use Opera.
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That isn't the issue here. When IE doesn't understand how to interpret a
properly formatted XML file (as a RSS feed should be) it just opens it as a
raw unformatted XML file.

In this case, IE is trying to parse the XML to decide what to do with it,
and is detecting an error. IE is quite leniant in its handling of HTML
errors in that it ignores them and parses the rest of the page, but quite
strict in its handling of XML errors in that it halts all processing of the
page and displays an error.

This is what the OP is reporting.


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F

Frank S Sohtye

Yes but why display an error? why not just ignore the errors and keep
processing the page like the other browsers I mentioned, and I would like to
add Netscape to that. The page loads fine in IE 7 and as far as I know there
is no work around for IE 6.
 
R

Robert Moir

Frank said:
Yes but why display an error?
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Well why not. It's a design choice and a valid one. Like you, I don't like
it, but that doesn't make it an invalid choice.

This is, however, one of the reasons that firefox is my primary browser.
why not just ignore the errors and keep
processing the page like the other browsers I mentioned, and I would
like to add Netscape to that. The page loads fine in IE 7 and as far
as I know there is no work around for IE 6.
Click to expand...

Keeping in mind how old and tired IE6 is, they probably didn't do a very
good job of implementing the xhtml and xml parsers compared to all those
other products mentioned that have been updated loads of times since then.

Again, another reason firefox is my primary browser!
 
P

P. Burrows

If the page is XML ...
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It is html.

IE thinks there is an error on the page, one which it cannot work around.
Discussions about whether Explorer or Opera is the right or wrong one aren't
going to solve anything,
Click to expand...

I am not discussing anything, I'm trying to figure out if I can disable
unwanted behaviour in IE.
 

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