Case sensitivity

Joon Radley joon at radleys.co.za
Tue Jun 15 12:38:03 CEST 2004


Hi, 

> We decided on case insensitivity for tags and "enums". But it 
> seems to be very unusual to do this. See for example this mail:
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200004/msg00065.html and this
> description: http://developer.irt.org/script/5215.htm
> 
> What do you think about making it case sensitive instead? So 
> it has to be <Note> instead of <note> or <NOTE>?
> 
> BTW, this probably won't be the last suggestion I have - I 
> just assigned David Faure who is on the OASIS Office XML 
> specification board to help me implement this spec. He knows 
> a lot about this area, and he can probably help us look a bit 
> more like other specifications. I think that's a good thing, 
> but I don't know if you would object to any of it. Speak up 
> if you do :-)

I have no problem with this. 

XML is the storage format and we should incorporate suggestions by the XML
guru's as non of us are. Just do not mess with the mapping of properties.
:-)

Will this process take long? 

Regards

Joon




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