Case sensitivity

[Stephan Buys]

For Code Fusion we agree with David's suggestions. Lets stay as close to
well-accepted practices as possible. So...

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:04, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 June 2004 11:49, David Faure wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 June 2004 11:41, Martin Konold wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 11:26 schrieb Bo Thorsen:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > We decided on case insensitivity for tags and "enums". But it seems
> > > > to be very unusual to do this.
> > >
> > > Beeing case sensitive helps to make searches comparisions etc much
> > > easier and lightweigt beacuse there is no requirement for evaluation
> > > of regular expressions or for conversion. Therefore I agree that case
> > > sensitive is the better approach for an XML storage format.
> >
> > Great.
> 
> Well, we still have to hear what the Toltec and Code Fusion people think.
> 
We agree.

> > One more note on that: Bo suggested <Note> instead of <note> or <NOTE>
> > (most of the storage format has title-cased words currently).
> > But it's more common in XML to use all-lowercase words.
> > Proper XML would even be <namespaceprefix:note>, but that's not
> > necessary if there's only one namespace being used, as is the case
> > here.
> >
> > I would suggest to use "<nick-name>" instead of "<NickName>", etc.
> > This would be more consistent with modern XML specs.
> 
> I truly don't care either way. Well, that's probably not true - I would 
> like us to have an XML spec that doesn't look odd.
> 
> Joon, Stuart, Stephan, what do you think about this?
> 
nick-name

> > Is there a plan to write a formal schema for this XML format? In that
> > case I would suggest using XML Schema or RelaxNG instead of a DTD. This
> > allows to validate existing files throughly, including showing an error
> > if a color was specified as "blue" instead of #FF0000, which a DTD
> > doesn't allow. If there's some interest in this (and time for it), I
> > could write a RelaxNG schema that we could all use to validate the
> > generated XML.
> 
> That would of course be A Good Thing(TM).
> 
agreed.

> Can such a schema handle allowing unknown tags? This is necessary, since 
> clients are allowed to have their own tags, and all others are required 
> to preserve them.
> 
> Bo.
> 

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