- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:16:42 +0200
- To: "Doug Schepers" <doug.schepers@vectoreal.com>
- Cc: "'Anne van Kesteren'" <annevk@opera.com>, www-svg@w3.org
On Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 11:23:41 PM, Doug wrote: DS> * match [Definition: (Of strings or names:) Two strings or names being DS> compared MUST be identical. Characters with multiple possible DS> representations in ISO/IEC 10646 (e.g. characters with both precomposed and DS> base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the same representation in DS> both strings. No case folding is performed. (Of strings and rules in the DS> grammar:) A string matches a grammatical production if it belongs to the DS> language generated by that production. (Of content and content models:) An DS> element matches its declaration when it conforms in the fashion described in DS> the constraint [VC: Element Valid].] Or in other words, if two e-acutes are not matched (because one is a pre-combined eacute and the other is an e with a combining acute accent) then its pretty clear the "A" and "a" don't match. Anne, if you wish to suggest a revision of XML which is case-insensitive throughout, please contact public-xml-core-wg@w3.org with a detailed proposal. DS> In any case (no pun intended), the strict string matching is DS> unquestionably defined in XML, so this point is not open to DS> interpretation. Right. DS> It's not that simple. There are other languages and tools to attempt DS> compatibility with, so a conservative approach to supported values DS> converges with more specifications than a liberal one. Specifically it converges with XSL which being written in XML, uses case-sensitive string comparison in conformance with the XML specification. DS> It does look like this case is problematic. I will recommend that we DS> remove the normative reference to HTML, Its an informative reference, by the way. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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