RE: PIs with target "XML" etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-xml-core-wg-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Thursday, 2011 February 10 16:44
> To: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: PIs with target "XML" etc.
> 
> The XML conformance tests assume that a PI with <?XML ...?> (or Xml,
> XmL, etc.)  is not well-formed.  However, 2.6 only says "reserved for
> standardization", the same language used for elements and attributes
> beginning with the three letters.  So our rec and our tests don't
> agree.

Though production 23 does make clear that an XMLDecl
must have the lower case version only.

paul

> Saxon also reports a fatal error for such PIs.
> 
> I think we should make it a fatal error, so that people don't attempt
> to
> write a processing instruction using upper case which is then
> effectively
> ignored rather than provoking an error.
> 
> Here are the relevant tests:
> 
> xmlconf/ibm/not-wf/P17/ibm17n01.xml:<?XML This is a test ?>
> xmlconf/ibm/not-wf/P77/ibm77n02.ent:<?XML encoding="UTF8"?>
> xmlconf/ibm/not-wf/P23/ibm23n04.xml:<?XML version='1.0'?>
> xmlconf/oasis/p23fail1.xml:<?XML version="1.0"?>
> xmlconf/xmltest/not-wf/sa/154.xml:<?XML version="1.0"?>
> xmlconf/xmltest/not-wf/sa/156.xml:<?xMl version="1.0"?>
> xmlconf/ibm/not-wf/P17/ibm17n04.xml:<?xmL This is a test ?>
> xmlconf/xmltest/not-wf/sa/155.xml:<?xmL version="1.0"?>
> xmlconf/xmltest/not-wf/sa/157.xml:<?xmL?>
> xmlconf/ibm/not-wf/P17/ibm17n02.xml:<?xML This is a test ?>
> 
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