Re: output html as lower case?

Hi Mark, Jake,

On Monday 23 June 2003 22:36, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> Just pinging the list about a conversation I had with David Li about making
> XMLC output HTML in lower case.  HTML tags are not case sensitive, but
> XHTML is (because it is XML compliant).  Now, the reason why having XMLC
> output tags in all upper case is kind of annoying (besides the ugliness of
> all upper case) is for things like XPath which, being an application of
> XML, is also case sensitive.  If I write an XPath expression, it will only
> work on HTML and not XHTML or vice-versa, but not both.

I'm all for it. Maybe make this configurable in the output options and have it 
default to upper case so we don't break any existing apps.

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:42, Mark Diekhans wrote:
> The string written for a tag is not actually under XMLC's control.  It uses
> the name returned by Element.getTagName().   

Well, that's only part of the truth :-) XMLC still prints the tag name and can 
just as well convert it to lower case first.



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