Re: Case sensitive attribute *names* in Cougar?

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dave Raggett wrote:

> CDATA attributes leave the details to the specification.
> There is no proposal for the onXYZ attributes to be
> defined as case sensitive as far as I am aware as an
> editor of the Cougar spec. You may have heard about
> an investigation on case sensitivity and I18N. When you
> go beyond US ASCII, case insensitive matches get non-
> trival. Unicode 2.0 provides one definition, which
> Java and XML (I believe) use.

Yes, XML uses it. Java doesn't use it, because Java
syntax is fully case-sensitive (inherited from C++,
I guess).

Regards,	Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 18 June 1997 15:35:47 UTC