Re: Case-sensitivity of "<!DOCTYPE ..."

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Ian B. Jacobs wrote:

> I think the HTML spec should say something about the
> case-sensitivity of the document type declaration. Could
> someone with an SMGL book let me know and I'll add
> something?

I believe that as an SGML application this should be
case insensitive. This follows from the definition of
SGML NAME values. However, I can't find definitive
evidence that DOCTYPE, ATTLIST and ENTITY are NAME
valies.


Regards,

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