Jon "Jim'll" Knight wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Misha Wolf wrote:
> > This is a contribution to the discussion on element and sub-element
> > naming conventions.
>
> On the whole I like the proposals, certainly for making I-Ds consistant
> and clear. The only thing that is nagging at the back of my mind is will
> DC ever pass through some hostile environment (such as an end user's brain
> :-) ) that might screw the case up? If we think that is really likely, to
> handle that case I'd say that Misha's proposals would be the *prefered*
> versions that software SHOULD generate but that software SHOULD be able to
> handle any mix of case. Making a string case insensitive is a pretty easy
> operation after all.
True (if element and sub-element names are limited to (a subset of) ASCII
characters).
Misha
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