Re: Ready for the Big Time!

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 10:25:15 EDT

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     --- Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com> wrote: >
    Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote in
    >
    news:Pine.LNX.4.40.0204200040100.27040-100000@turing.maths.tcd.ie:
    >
    > > 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.

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