* Johnny Stenback wrote: >Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > >>>This doesn't help me >>>know what I should pass to getElementsByTagName(). >>> >> >> Input isn't modified, at least, there is no such statement in DOM Level >> 2, so you must pass uppercase element names. > >Huh? Hmm, now that you mention this I can't find anywhere in the spec >where it's stated that methods such as getElementsByTagName() are indeed >case in-sensitive in the HTML DOM, at least that's how the most widely >used HTML DOM implementations chose to implement this (i.e. web >browsers), and I'd be surpised if this was not the intent when the specs >were written. This should probably be changed in the spec. A clarification should be added to the current errata, yes. >>>In practice, I know that for HTML documents I can use tag names with any >>>capitalization and the getElementsByTagName() methods will work okay. >> >> Yes, if you pass uppercase element names. > >Case should not matter in a pure HTML DOM. Let's say, rules for case-sensitivity should by inherited from HTML. -- Björn Höhrmann { mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de } http://www.bjoernsworld.de am Badedeich 7 } Telefon: +49(0)4667/981028 { http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de 25899 Dagebüll { PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 } http://www.learn.to/quote/Received on Friday, 3 August 2001 22:55:41 GMT
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