- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:56:52 +0300
In XHTML there are attributes whose value must be in lowercase, although in HTML the value is case-insensitive. The most common example is the method attribute of the form element. But should rev and rel be lowercased? A piece of software that maps from the HTML flavor of HTML5 to the XHTML flavor and needs to decide which attribute values to lowercase. How should the decision be done? Based solely on the attribute name? (In which case 'type' would be interesting.) Based on both the element name and the attribute name? What is the recommended method for the author of such a piece of software for extracting the list of special cases from the spec? How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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