Re: is HCRO case sensitive? from Kevin Rodgers on 2004-01-14 (www-html@w3.org from January 2004)

From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:07:57 -0700
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <16389.30573.832788.909389@ihs.com>

Satoshi ISHIKAWA writes:
> In SGML, case sensitivity of delimiters is defined through the
> NAMECASE section of SGML declaration.
> 
> In SGML Annex L.2, NAMECASE is defined as "GENERAL NO".
> And in HTML 4.01, NAMECASE is defined as "GENERAL YES".
> 
> So hcro (&#x) is case sensitive in XML, but not in HTML.
> Both of &#x123; and &#X123; are valid in HTML,
> but &#X123; is not well-formed in XML.

So how is that resolved in XHTML 1.0, which is a reformulation of HTML
4.01 (case-insensitive hcro) in XML 1.0 (case-sensitive hcro)?

Thanks,
-- 
Kevin

Received on Wednesday, 14 January 2004 12:09:19 UTC