248734 - [invalid XML] 3DMark 2003 System Information

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Double Dragon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

When clicked on Details for System Information in 3DMark 2003, it generates an
XML file. This file can only be viewed by IE and Firefox always fails to load
it, and instead just shows some error

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open 3DMark 2003
2.On main window that shows, under the heading "System" , click on Details
3.If the XML opens in IE, copy the URl, paste in Firefox and there you go!

Actual Results:  
Firefox shows the following error:
XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
Location: file:///C:/Program%20Files/3DMark03/systeminfo/SI.xml
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
^


Expected Results:  
Instead it should've showed the page clearly as IE does!!!

Comment 1

[Bernard Alleysson]

Could you attach the XML File to the bug ?

Comment 2

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

Attachment: XML directory zipped

You need to download the zip file and extract the files within.

Comment 3

[Bernard Alleysson]

I can see it too
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040623

Comment 4

[Bernard Alleysson]

It's because the XML file starts with:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="systeminfo_explorer_en.xsl"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>

If you change it to start with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="systeminfo_explorer_en.xsl"?>

then it loads correctly 
I think that the XML file is invalid because it doesn't start with xml version

Comment 5

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

so is it a Tech Evang issue then?

Comment 6

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Yes, definitely evangelism issue. Mozilla is doing the right thing, their tool
is producing invalid XML.

Comment 7

[Double Dragon]

Yesterday I contacted 3DMark 2003 support about this and told them about the
wrong XML header they are producing. I'll post here any replies from them.
But question arises, how is IE's interpreter so strong that it ignores such
errors and shows the file correctly. Why cant mozilla handle such cases?

Comment 8

[Double Dragon]

Hi,

We currently don't have a patch available addressing this issue, but we hope to
have it corrected in the next version of our benchmark!

Best Regards,
Futuremark Support

[e-mail] wrote:

Comment 9

[timeless]

reporter: mozilla is following the spec, the basis of xml is strict parsing.
following the spec means not tolerating things....

Comment 10

[Bernard Alleysson]

reopening, it is a perfectly valid tech evangelism bug
just wait for the next version of the benchmark to resolve it FIXED

Comment 11

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Can't reproduce, WFM

Comment 12

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Pascal, it has been verified that 3DMark 2003 produces invalid XML and the
manufacturer has said they don't know when they will fix it. What version of the
program did you use to test, and what was your test procedure?

Comment 13

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

oops sorry, I messed up working with tabs, that's not the bug I intended to
close, reopening

Comment 14

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.