On Fri, 1 May 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > I haven't changed the HTML5 spec on this issue, since it seems that > > what the spec says is what people seemed to agree was the desireable > > behaviour. > > > > Namely, the method is case-sensitive except for elements in the HTML > > namespace in HTML documents. > > That doesn't sound to me like what was agreed on towards the end there, > but maybe I misunderstood. My impression is that for the HTML namespace > in HTML documents the argument to getElementsByTagName is > ASCII-lowercased before doing a case-sensitive compare; for everything > else the original case is used. Oh, right, you can have non-lowercase nodes in the HTML namespace, I forgot about that. Ok, changed as you described: # [...] compare the given argument in a case-sensitive manner, but when # looking at HTML elements, the argument must first be converted to # lowercase. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Saturday, 2 May 2009 01:19:18 GMT
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