FPI case sensitivity in draft-connolly-text-html-02

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-connolly-text-html-02.txt says:

> 5. Recognizing HTML files
> 
>    Almost all HTML files have the string "<html" or "<HTML" near the
>    beginning of the file.
> 
>    Documents conformant to HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 will start
>    with a DOCTYPE declaration "<!DOCTYPE HTML" near the beginning,
>    before the "<html". These dialects are case insensitive. [...]

But I believe FPIs are case sensitive. (They are as implemented
in SP, anyway, unless I misconfigured something.)

Sample SP output:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://validator.w3.org/dev/tests/bogus-fpi.html

Line 1, column 60: 

       <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
                                                                   ^

     Error: invalid formal public identifier "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en": invalid public text class

     Line 1, column 61: 

       <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
                                                                    ^

     Error: cannot generate system identifier for public text "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"

[...]

Can anyone confirm that public identifiers are case sensitive?
Or am I reading too much into SP's behavior?

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Received on Monday, 14 February 2000 18:16:53 UTC