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Bug 2868 - RQ-100 Canonical form for language (canon-language)
Summary: RQ-100 Canonical form for language (canon-language)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XML Schema
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Datatypes: XSD Part 2 (show other bugs)
Version: 1.1 only
Hardware: Other All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
QA Contact: XML Schema comments list
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Keywords: resolved
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Reported: 2006-02-11 02:23 UTC by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Modified: 2006-02-11 02:30 UTC (History)
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Description C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 2006-02-11 02:23:31 UTC 
This issue was originally reported by Ashok Malhotra.

We need a canonical form for the language datatype.  Both upper and
lower case variants are permitted.

See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2002Mar/0036.html
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2002Mar/0036.html)

This item was discussed in the meeting of 2003-11-21
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Nov/0050.html)

This requirement has been resolved by providing a health warning noting
that 'EN' and 'en' (for example) do not map to the same value, and that
application-level logic is required if they are to be treated as 
the same for application purposes.