Re: getElementsByTagName() and case-sensitivity for HTML documents

From: "David Flanagan" <david@oreilly.com>
> As far as I know, the getElementsByTagName() method of the Document and
> Element interfaces does not care what capitalization you use when you
> specify the tag name: it does a case-insensitive compare, or normalizes
> the tag names to all uppercase or all lowercase or something.
>
> However, I cannot find where the spec  actually says this.   Am I
> missing it somewhere, or does the spec need to be clarified, or am
> I just wrong about the behavior of this method.

I'm kind of hoping you are wrong. XML is case-sensitive. The elements <a>
and <A> are not the same and I don't know why one would want them returned
in the same list.

Bob Foster
WebGain

>     David Flanagan