- From: Tim Bagot <tsb@earth.li>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 11:08:51 +0000 (UTC)
- To: HTML mailing list <www-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Dan wrote: > All my programms handles case insensitivity and it is very simple to > do it. > So why not allow it? The problem here is that the character set of XML is ISO 10646, not ASCII or an ISO 8859 variant. While this has been true also of HTML, the difference is that in HTML all markup uses only ASCII characters; in XML the names of elements etc. may contain anything falling into one of the appropriate Unicode character classes. Any rules for case conversion (and equivalent operations for scripts which do not have case in the same sense) are therefore necessarily rather complicated - perhaps not the sort of thing we want to impose on very small systems. Worse, in order to work well, such rules would need to updated whenever the character set is extended. Tim Bagot
Received on Saturday, 6 March 1999 06:15:41 UTC