Geoff Howard wrote:
> Joerg Heinicke wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> GOT IT!!!
>>
>> What ever node type this should be: <![if !IE]> <![endif]>
>> this is the reason for the exception. Why the explicite XPath works?
>> I don't know ... At other places in the same file these constructs
>> are placed in comments and don't disturb: <!--[if IE]><![endif]--> To
>> which language do these constructs belong?
>
>
> You mean you don't use the "Downlevel-revealed Conditional Comment"
> and the "Downlevel-hidden Conditional Comment" every day? When I
> first ran into this I was quite confused but google came to the rescue:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp
>
> Basically, IIRC it's a microsoft extension to html which is a
> conditional evaluated by the browser. The two have different meanings
> that I haven't quite taken the time to grasp. Do they use it on every
> page? How about switching to google or cnn?
EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!
Switch to google *immediately*! Say, http://directory.google.com/ --
that's what we were pulling from yahoo
Vadim
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