Re: name case-folding
Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:22:31 -0700
At 08:42 PM 4/19/98 +0100, Steve Robertson wrote:
>If I remember correctly, the XML specification states that the processor
>should fold names to uppercase characters for the purpose of attribute and
>element name comparisons.
>
>Do I have this right, or is the case of name characters significant?
You do not. With a few rare exceptions (e.g. language tags) all
names in XML are case-sensitive. My annotated spec
(http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html) has some verbiage as to why
this is so, for those around here fortunate enough not to have lived
through that debate. -T.