RE: XHTML/XML comment

rev-bob@gotc.com wrote:

>> I just printed the XHTML 1.0 document and an floored by the
>> following:
>> 
>>    4.2 Element and attribute names must be in lower case.
>
> XML is case-sensitive; as a reformulation of HTML in XML syntax, XHTML
must be case-
> sensitive as well.

This was probably answered in the development of XML (and I'd guess you
could trace it back to SGML, of which I know nothing) but since we're on the
subject, why is it case sensitive? I can't imagine (well, I can but I don't
want to) that there is any intention of adding new tags to the XHTML
recommendation that have the same name but different case than existing
ones; nor can I see the creation of XML DTDs that contain same-named tags of
different case. I'm sure I'm just lacking background on this, but could
somebody summarize what the reason behind this minor hindrance is? Thanks.

Christopher Luebcke

Received on Monday, 31 January 2000 11:28:29 UTC