--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Abiword is an XML document, IE6 does not > understand the dialect > > of XML used. > > That's not correct. Actually, the DTD *is* invalid. > This means that > every validating XML parser *MUST* (in the strictest > sense of the > word) refuse to try to display the document. > > > Mozilla at least manages to display the text of > > the document. > > That's because Mozilla doesn't use a validating > parser. > > > Frankly i am surprised that a web browser > (Mozilla) was able to > > make any decent attempt at loading a Word > Processing document > > format, which is quite different from html web > pages. > > Mozilla display CSS-less XML documents with > 'display: inline' on > every element (which BTW is correct behaviour). > > > It would be very nice if IE6 and even better > Mozilla v1.0 could > > display abiword documents properly, although I > dont know what > > would be needed to make the XML more > understandable. > > Add a (XSLT or CSS) stylesheet. A CSS style sheet > will make *very* > simple (but readable) rendering possible. > > But this DTD is a very serious problem. It means > that every > documented generated by AbiWord is actually > *invalid*, and that > every validating XML parser will refuse to parse it. > This obviously > needs to be fixed ASAP. The easiest way is to delete > all the > contents from the DTD file, so that it's just an > empty file. > Secondly, future versions of AbiWord should not > included a DOCTYPE > declaration (or if they do, fix the DTD).
Can somebody knowlegable file a bug - this is important stuff. Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
