- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:20:17 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 8:42 PM 10/29/96, Bill Smith wrote: >Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > >> As do I. I also think it's the most practicable thing to do. We >> will never have less XML legacy data to worry about than we do now >> -- so it will never be easier to introduce case sensitivity >> throughout the markup language than it is now. > >Well said. > >> Let's all take a deep breath. Case-sensitive element names, >> attribute names, attribute values. We can live with that. Element >> names restricted to a subset of the alphabet (say, A-J, all >> uppercase)? I couldn't live happily with that, and I can't see >> asking the native speakers of every language but English and Latin >> to do so. > >Ditto. Yea, verily, yea! Now the agonizing part: are !element !attlist, etc. upper or lower case? I argue for lower case, given that studies of roman alphabet readability dhave shown mixed case to be more distinctive, legible, and easy to read than ALL CAPS TEXT. I have having to shout when I type tags.... -- David Since the religious aspect of this issue is very large, perhaps comments should be restricted to a single vote for preferred case... I could live will ALL CAPS BUT I FIND IT UGLY AND HARD TO READ. I WILL NOT POST FURTHER ON THE ISSUE OF WHICH CASE TO USE. I HAVE SAID MY PIECE. I'D STILL MUCH RATHER LIVE WITH UPPER CASE THAN TRY TO DEFINE CORRECT CASE FOLDING IN UNICODE, or implement it. RE delenda est. I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/services_map_main.html
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