- From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@isode.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:30:30 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
Martin Duerst wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dave Raggett wrote: > > > CDATA attributes leave the details to the specification. > > There is no proposal for the onXYZ attributes to be > > defined as case sensitive as far as I am aware as an > > editor of the Cougar spec. You may have heard about > > an investigation on case sensitivity and I18N. When you > > go beyond US ASCII, case insensitive matches get non- > > trival. Unicode 2.0 provides one definition, which > > Java and XML (I believe) use. > > Yes, XML uses it. Java doesn't use it, because Java > syntax is fully case-sensitive (inherited from C++, > I guess). > > Regards, Martin. > Presumably Dave Raggett actually meant "how Java programs perform case-insensitive matching", in other words how the java.lang.String.equalsIgnoreCase() method works. Chris
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