xml-dev - Re: XML Link Questions

[Toby Speight <tms@ansa.co.uk>]

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Peter> Peter Murray-Rust <URL:mailto:peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>

> In article <3.0.1.16.19971029102522.29078f64@pop3.demon.co.uk>,
> Peter wrote:

Peter> It is now legal to write: <FOO HREF="a.xml" href="b.xml"
Peter> Href="c.xml">

Peter> Inconsistency in examples of XML is rife :-) We need this
Peter> cleared up quickly.

I'm not on the WG, so I didn't see the details of this change.  I had
expected something like the compromise CORBA made (AIUI): names are
case-sensitive, but names are not allowed to differ only in case.  (This
is important for CORBA because it has to work with programming languages
of which some are case-sensitive and some are case-insensitive.  This
rule means that the names will work in either environment.)

This is achievable in XML by making the names case-sensitive, and then
adding a rule to XML prohibiting the names that are the same after
case-folding.

Could someone clarify what the current rules are?



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