- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:56:48 +0200
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> The case-sensitivity of an Internet Media type should be defined by RFC >> 2046 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt > >Fair enough, [...] No, a statement that a character string based protocol element is case- sensitive or case-insensitive does not imply any requirements for im- plementations unless so specified (for example, even though the scheme component of a URI is case-insensitive, implementations are often re- quired to perform case-sensitive comparison of the scheme, like in XML Namespaces), and even if, the comparison algorithm has to be specified. As an example, if comparison is based on full case folding as defined in Unicode, "APPLICATION/SSML+XML" and "APPLICATION/ßML+XML", or if you follow the IRC protocol rules, "application/x-foo^bar" and "application/ x-foo~bar" would be equivalent. You typically also have to define when to establish whether the value is allowed, since folding first and then checking produces different results to when you check first and fold later. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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