Re: Case sensitive attribute *names* in Cougar?

[Arnoud Engelfriet]
> Recently I received a message from someone who claimed that the
> "Cougar" HTML proposal will define the "intrinsic event" attributes
> (onmouseover, onsubmit, etc) as being *case sensitive*.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this goes entirely against the SGML rules that
> element and attribute names are case insensitive, so I would like to
> know if there is any truth to this.

Was the person claiming that the attribute *names* or *values* would
be case sensitive?  In most SGML, including HTML, names are always
folded to upper-case.  The values, however, can be case sensitive if
declared as type CDATA (which I believe those are).

-Chris
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Received on Wednesday, 18 June 1997 14:31:28 UTC