- From: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:20:08 -0800 (PST)
- To: Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>
- cc: html-w3c <www-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Robert Koberg wrote: > Why are all the XML languages lowercase? xhtml is lowercase. As someone pointed out, XML can be either. > Is this decision arbitrary or are there reasons? I was just reading about this somewhere... it was not arbitrary (they had to go with one or the other) and there were valid arguments for both. I think I remember this source as saying that lowercase had won the day in part because of folks who code by hand (like me :-) for whom uppercase was going to be a PITA I'll check my HTML/XHTML book when I get home and see if I can find more of the background. TjL
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