- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 04:55:05 +0200
- To: jst@netscape.com (Johnny Stenback)
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org, plh@w3.org
* Johnny Stenback wrote:
>Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>
>>>This doesn't help me
>>>know what I should pass to getElementsByTagName().
>>>
>>
>> Input isn't modified, at least, there is no such statement in DOM Level
>> 2, so you must pass uppercase element names.
>
>Huh? Hmm, now that you mention this I can't find anywhere in the spec
>where it's stated that methods such as getElementsByTagName() are indeed
>case in-sensitive in the HTML DOM, at least that's how the most widely
>used HTML DOM implementations chose to implement this (i.e. web
>browsers), and I'd be surpised if this was not the intent when the specs
>were written. This should probably be changed in the spec.
A clarification should be added to the current errata, yes.
>>>In practice, I know that for HTML documents I can use tag names with any
>>>capitalization and the getElementsByTagName() methods will work okay.
>>
>> Yes, if you pass uppercase element names.
>
>Case should not matter in a pure HTML DOM.
Let's say, rules for case-sensitivity should by inherited from HTML.
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