- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:13:56 +0100
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Fine, many thanks : you have confirmed my belief, which is most helpful. ** Phil. -------- "Jukka K. Korpela" wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP] wrote: > > > Slight problem, Jukka : IDs are no longer required to be unique. > > Yes, that's exactly the way to allow ID values that differ in case only. > It removes the uniquess requirement. > > > What I had wanted was that they should still be required to be > > unique, but that uniqueness should imply case-sensitivity (in this > > context, at least); is that possible, do you think ? > > In a DTD, no. The case sensitivity rules are set in the SGML declaration > (in the naming rules), and I don't think there's a way to tell the W3C > validator use something different from the reference concrete syntax, > which has NAMECASE GENERAL YES, thereby making all names case insensitive. > And if you could change this, it would affect _all_ names. > > -- > Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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