mike: added section about case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names

mike: added section about case insensitivity in tag names and attribute
names

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/markup/Overview.html?r1=1.335&r2=1.336&f=h

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--- Overview.html 30 Jul 2009 16:42:46 -0000 1.335
+++ Overview.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:41 -0000 1.336
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 <a href="syntax.html#syntax">6. HTML syntax</a>
 </li>
 <li>
-<a href="elements.html#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="elements.html#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
 </li>
 <li>
 <a href="common-models.html#common-models">8. Common content models</a>
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@
 <li id="documents-toc">
 <a href="documents.html#documents">5.2. Conformant documents</a>
 </li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc">
+<a href="documents.html#case-insensitivity">5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li id="syntax-toc">
@@ -202,7 +205,7 @@
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li id="elements-toc">
-<a href="elements.html#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="elements.html#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
 <ul>
 <li id="a-toc">
 <a href="a.html#a"><span class="element">a</span> &#8211; <span class="shortdesc">hyperlink</span></a>

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--- syntax.html 30 Jul 2009 17:08:49 -0000 1.19
+++ syntax.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:42 -0000 1.20
@@ -167,9 +167,13 @@
     <p>An element&#8217;s <dfn id="content-model" title="content-model">content model</dfn> defines the element&#8217;s structure: What
     <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a> (if any) the element can
     contain, as well as what attributes (if any) the element can
-    have. The <a href="elements.html#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
-    specification defines the content models for all elements.
-    An element must not contain <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
+    have. The
+    <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+    section of this specification defines the content models for
+    all of the elements that are part of the
+    <a href="documents.html#html-language">HTML language</a>.
+    An element must not contain
+    <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
     or attributes that are not part of its content model.</p>
     <p>The
     <dfn id="contents" title="contents">contents</dfn>
@@ -224,17 +228,14 @@
       indicate where they end.</li>
       <li><dfn id="tag-name" title="syntax-tag-name">Tag names</dfn>
       are used within element start tags and end tags to 
-      give the element&#8217;s name. HTML elements all have names that
-      only use characters in the range
+      give the element&#8217;s name.
+      <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      all have names that only use characters in the range
       <code title="U+0030 DIGIT ZERO&#8211;U+0039 DIGIT NINE">0&#8211;9</code>,
       <code title="U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A&#8211;U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z">a&#8211;z</code>,
       <code title="U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A&#8211;U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z">A&#8211;Z</code>,
       and the character
-      "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".
-      Tag names may be written with any mix of
-      lowercase and uppercase letters that, when converted to
-      all-lowercase, matches the element&#8217;s tag name; tag names are
-      case-insensitive.</li>
+      "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".</li>
       <li>
       <dfn id="syntax-start-tags">Start tags</dfn>
       consist of the following parts, in exactly the following
@@ -284,11 +285,11 @@
       start tag; end tags must not be specified for void
       elements.</li>
       <li>The start and end tags of certain elements can be <dfn id="omitted" title="syntax-tag-omission">omitted</dfn>. 
-      The subsection for each element in the <a href="elements.html#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
+      The subsection for each element in the <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a> section of this
       specification provides information about which tags (if any)
       can be omitted for that particular element.</li>
       <li>A non-<a href="syntax.html#void-element">void</a> element must have
-      an end tag, unless the subsection for that element in the <a href="elements.html#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
+      an end tag, unless the subsection for that element in the <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a> section of this
       specification indicates that its end tag can be <a href="syntax.html#omitted">omitted</a>.</li>
       <li>The <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a> of an element must be
       placed between just after its start tag (which
@@ -297,38 +298,41 @@
       (which <a href="syntax.html#omitted" title="syntax-tag-omission">might be
         implied in certain cases</a>).</li>
     </ul>
-    <p>If an
-    <a href="syntax.html#syntax-elements">element</a>
-    has both a
-    <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
-    and an
-    <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
-    its end tag must be contained within the
-    <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
-    of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
-    An
-    <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
-    that is not contained within the same 
-    <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
-    as its
-    <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
-    is said to be a
-    <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
-    <div class="example">
-      <p>In the following example, the
-      "<code>&lt;/i&gt;</code>"
+    <div id="misnesting" class="section">
+      <h2>6.3.1. Misnested tags <a class="hash" href="#misnesting">#</a></h2>
+      <p>If an
+      <a href="syntax.html#syntax-elements">element</a>
+      has both a
+      <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+      and an
+      <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
+      its end tag must be contained within the
+      <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
+      of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
+      An
       <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
-      is a
-      <a href="syntax.html#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
-      because it is not contained
-      within the 
+      that is not contained within the same 
       <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
-      of the
-      <span class="element">b</span>
-      element that contains its corresponding
-      "<code>&lt;i&gt;</code>"
-      start tag.</p>
-      <pre>&lt;b&gt;foo &lt;i&gt;bar&lt;/b&gt; baz&lt;/i&gt;</pre>
+      as its
+      <a href="syntax.html#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+      is said to be a
+      <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
+      <div class="example">
+        <p>In the following example, the
+        "<code>&lt;/i&gt;</code>"
+        <a href="syntax.html#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
+        is a
+        <a href="syntax.html#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
+        because it is not contained
+        within the 
+        <a href="syntax.html#contents">contents</a>
+        of the
+        <span class="element">b</span>
+        element that contains its corresponding
+        "<code>&lt;i&gt;</code>"
+        start tag.</p>
+        <pre>&lt;b&gt;foo &lt;i&gt;bar&lt;/b&gt; baz&lt;/i&gt;</pre>
+      </div>
     </div>
   </div>
     <div id="syntax-attributes" class="section">
@@ -363,11 +367,7 @@
       "<code title="U+002F SOLIDUS">/</code>",
       "<code title="U+003D EQUALS SIGN">=</code>",
       the control characters,
-      and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.
-      Attribute names may be written with any mix of lowercase and
-      uppercase letters that are an
-      <a href="terminology.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
-      match for the attribute&#8217;s name.</li>
+      and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.</li>
       <li><dfn id="xml-compatible">XML-compatible</dfn>
       attribute names are those that match the
       <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name"><code>Name</code></a> production defined in

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@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 </li>
 <li id="documents-toc"><a href="documents.html#documents">2. Conformant documents</a>
 </li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc"><a href="documents.html#case-insensitivity">3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
   <p>The term
@@ -136,6 +138,51 @@
     and must not
     <a href="syntax.html#omitted">omit tags</a>).</p>
   </div>
+  <div id="case-insensitivity" class="section">
+    <h2>5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names <a class="hash" href="#case-insensitivity">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="Overview.html#case-insensitivity-toc">T</a></h2>
+    <p>In
+    <a href="documents.html#syntax-document-html">documents in the HTML syntax</a>:</p>
+    <ul>
+      <li><a href="syntax.html#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      may be written with any mix of lowercase and
+      uppercase letters that are an
+      <a href="terminology.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+      match for the names of the elements given in the
+      <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; tag names are
+      case-insensitive.</li>
+      <li><a href="syntax.html#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      may be written with any mix of lowercase and uppercase
+      letters that are an
+      <a href="terminology.html#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+      match for the names of the attributes given in the
+      <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; attribute names are
+      case-insensitive.</li>
+    </ul>
+    <p>In
+    <a href="documents.html#syntax-document-xml">documents in the XML syntax</a>:</p>
+    <ul>
+      <li><a href="syntax.html#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      must exactly match the names of the elements given in the
+      <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; tag names are
+      case-sensitive.</li>
+      <li><a href="syntax.html#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="elements.html#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      must exactly match the names of the attributes given in the
+      <a href="elements.html">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; attribute names are
+      case-sensitive.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </div>
 </div>
 <hr class="footerbreak"></hr>
 <div class="nav">

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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 <a href="#syntax">6. HTML syntax</a>
 </li>
 <li>
-<a href="#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
 </li>
 <li>
 <a href="#common-models">8. Common content models</a>
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@
 <li id="documents-toc">
 <a href="#documents">5.2. Conformant documents</a>
 </li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc">
+<a href="#case-insensitivity">5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li id="syntax-toc">
@@ -201,7 +204,7 @@
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li id="elements-toc">
-<a href="#elements">7. Elements</a>
+<a href="#elements">7. HTML elements</a>
 <ul>
 <li id="a-toc">
 <a href="#a"><span class="element">a</span> &#8211; <span class="shortdesc">hyperlink</span></a>
@@ -814,6 +817,9 @@
 <li id="documents-toc">
 <a href="#documents">2. Conformant documents</a>
 </li>
+<li id="case-insensitivity-toc">
+<a href="#case-insensitivity">3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names</a>
+</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
   <p>The term
@@ -933,6 +939,56 @@
     and must not
     <a href="#omitted">omit tags</a>).</p>
   </div>
+  <div id="case-insensitivity" class="section">
+    <h2>5.3. Case insensitivity in tag names and attribute names <a class="hash" href="#case-insensitivity">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#case-insensitivity-toc">T</a>
+</h2>
+    <p>In
+    <a href="#syntax-document-html">documents in the HTML syntax</a>:</p>
+    <ul>
+<li>
+<a href="#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      may be written with any mix of lowercase and
+      uppercase letters that are an
+      <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+      match for the names of the elements given in the
+      <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; tag names are
+      case-insensitive.</li>
+      <li>
+<a href="#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      may be written with any mix of lowercase and uppercase
+      letters that are an
+      <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+      match for the names of the attributes given in the
+      <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; attribute names are
+      case-insensitive.</li>
+    </ul>
+<p>In
+    <a href="#syntax-document-xml">documents in the XML syntax</a>:</p>
+    <ul>
+<li>
+<a href="#tag-name">Tag names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      must exactly match the names of the elements given in the
+      <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; tag names are
+      case-sensitive.</li>
+      <li>
+<a href="#attribute-name">Attribute names</a>
+      for
+      <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      must exactly match the names of the attributes given in the
+      <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+      section of this document; attribute names are
+      case-sensitive.</li>
+    </ul>
+</div>
 </div>
     <div id="syntax" class="section">
   <h2>6. HTML syntax <a class="hash" href="#syntax">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#syntax-toc">T</a>
@@ -1107,9 +1163,13 @@
     <p>An element&#8217;s <dfn id="content-model" title="content-model">content model</dfn> defines the element&#8217;s structure: What
     <a href="#contents">contents</a> (if any) the element can
     contain, as well as what attributes (if any) the element can
-    have. The <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a> section of this
-    specification defines the content models for all elements.
-    An element must not contain <a href="#contents">contents</a>
+    have. The
+    <a href="#elements">HTML elements</a>
+    section of this specification defines the content models for
+    all of the elements that are part of the
+    <a href="#html-language">HTML language</a>.
+    An element must not contain
+    <a href="#contents">contents</a>
     or attributes that are not part of its content model.</p>
     <p>The
     <dfn id="contents" title="contents">contents</dfn>
@@ -1166,17 +1226,14 @@
       <li>
 <dfn id="tag-name" title="syntax-tag-name">Tag names</dfn>
       are used within element start tags and end tags to 
-      give the element&#8217;s name. HTML elements all have names that
-      only use characters in the range
+      give the element&#8217;s name.
+      <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>
+      all have names that only use characters in the range
       <code title="U+0030 DIGIT ZERO&#8211;U+0039 DIGIT NINE">0&#8211;9</code>,
       <code title="U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A&#8211;U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z">a&#8211;z</code>,
       <code title="U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A&#8211;U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z">A&#8211;Z</code>,
       and the character
-      "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".
-      Tag names may be written with any mix of
-      lowercase and uppercase letters that, when converted to
-      all-lowercase, matches the element&#8217;s tag name; tag names are
-      case-insensitive.</li>
+      "<code title="U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS">-</code>".</li>
       <li>
       <dfn id="syntax-start-tags">Start tags</dfn>
       consist of the following parts, in exactly the following
@@ -1240,38 +1297,42 @@
       (which <a href="#omitted" title="syntax-tag-omission">might be
         implied in certain cases</a>).</li>
     </ul>
-<p>If an
-    <a href="#syntax-elements">element</a>
-    has both a
-    <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
-    and an
-    <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
-    its end tag must be contained within the
-    <a href="#contents">contents</a>
-    of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
-    An
-    <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
-    that is not contained within the same 
-    <a href="#contents">contents</a>
-    as its
-    <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
-    is said to be a
-    <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
-    <div class="example">
-      <p>In the following example, the
-      "<code>&lt;/i&gt;</code>"
+<div id="misnesting" class="section">
+      <h2>6.3.1. Misnested tags <a class="hash" href="#misnesting">#</a>
+</h2>
+      <p>If an
+      <a href="#syntax-elements">element</a>
+      has both a
+      <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+      and an
+      <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>,
+      its end tag must be contained within the
+      <a href="#contents">contents</a>
+      of the same element in which its start tag is contained.
+      An
       <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
-      is a
-      <a href="#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
-      because it is not contained
-      within the 
+      that is not contained within the same 
       <a href="#contents">contents</a>
-      of the
-      <span class="element">b</span>
-      element that contains its corresponding
-      "<code>&lt;i&gt;</code>"
-      start tag.</p>
-      <pre>&lt;b&gt;foo &lt;i&gt;bar&lt;/b&gt; baz&lt;/i&gt;</pre>
+      as its
+      <a href="#syntax-start-tags">start tag</a>
+      is said to be a
+      <dfn id="misnested-tag" title="misnested-tag">misnested tag</dfn>.</p>
+      <div class="example">
+        <p>In the following example, the
+        "<code>&lt;/i&gt;</code>"
+        <a href="#syntax-end-tags">end tag</a>
+        is a
+        <a href="#misnested-tag">misnested tag</a>,
+        because it is not contained
+        within the 
+        <a href="#contents">contents</a>
+        of the
+        <span class="element">b</span>
+        element that contains its corresponding
+        "<code>&lt;i&gt;</code>"
+        start tag.</p>
+        <pre>&lt;b&gt;foo &lt;i&gt;bar&lt;/b&gt; baz&lt;/i&gt;</pre>
+      </div>
     </div>
   </div>
     <div id="syntax-attributes" class="section">
@@ -1308,11 +1369,7 @@
       "<code title="U+002F SOLIDUS">/</code>",
       "<code title="U+003D EQUALS SIGN">=</code>",
       the control characters,
-      and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.
-      Attribute names may be written with any mix of lowercase and
-      uppercase letters that are an
-      <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
-      match for the attribute&#8217;s name.</li>
+      and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.</li>
       <li>
 <dfn id="xml-compatible">XML-compatible</dfn>
       attribute names are those that match the
@@ -1962,8 +2019,12 @@
  </div>
 </div>
         <div id="elements" class="section">
-        <h2>7. Elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#elements-toc">T</a>
+        <h2>7. HTML elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="#elements-toc">T</a>
 </h2>
+<p>The complete set of
+              <dfn id="html-elements" title="html-elements">HTML elements</dfn>
+              is the set of elements described in the following
+              sections.</p>
 <div class="toc">
 <ul>
 <li id="a-toc">

Index: elements.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/public/html5/markup/elements.html,v
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diff -u -d -r1.14 -r1.15
--- elements.html 29 Jul 2009 11:23:43 -0000 1.14
+++ elements.html 31 Jul 2009 08:34:42 -0000 1.15
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-<title>HTML5: Elements</title>
+<title>HTML5: HTML elements</title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"></link>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="W3C-ED.css" type="text/css"></link>
 </head>
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@
 <span class="nav-next"><a href="common-models.html">common-models &#187;</a></span>
 </div>
 <div id="elements" class="section">
-        <h2>7. Elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="Overview.html#elements-toc">T</a></h2><div class="toc">
+        <h2>7. HTML elements <a class="hash" href="#elements">#</a> <a class="toc-bak" href="Overview.html#elements-toc">T</a></h2><p>The complete set of
+              <dfn id="html-elements" title="html-elements">HTML elements</dfn>
+              is the set of elements described in the following
+              sections.</p><div class="toc">
 <ul>
 <li id="a-toc"><a href="a.html#a"><span class="element">a</span> &#8211; <span class="shortdesc">hyperlink</span></a>
 </li>

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