- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 02:46:18 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Is there a reason why the doctype name isn't case-folded in the > tokenizer like element and attribute names? > > Of the APIs I've tried to map HTML5 to, so far both APIs that > distinguish between interned and non-interned strings (Java SAX and > Gecko internal APIs) treat the doctype name as an interned string. Doing > a case-insensitive compare of interned strings in the tree builders goes > against the point of having interned strings for names. It's doable of > course, but the exceptional treatment of this particular name is weird > (and for a portable parser, requires yet another one-off comparison > method in the portability layer). Changed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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