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Johannes Koch wrote:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>
>> There's also the old IE-specific technique of "data islands" with the
>> non-standard HTML extension tag of <XML>
>
>
> It's also non-standard from an XML point of view.
> "This specification does not constrain the semantics, use, or (beyond
> syntax) names of the element types and attributes, except that names
> beginning with a match to (('X'|'x')('M'|'m')('L'|'l')) are reserved
But that does not really matter as the XML element is an extension IE
does to HTML and that element respectively its tags are parsed by the
HTML parser of IE. Only the contents of the XML element is then treated
as XML and parsed with MSXML, an XML parser.
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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