Re: output html as lower case?

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 16:33, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> Also, if we are to do this, would this solve the original problem 
> of the case-sensitivity of XPath?  That is, would the DOM actually be stored
> in lower case so that XPath can search through the html dom in lower case or
> would this only change the printing output of the html DOM?  

Oops, yes - this would only change the printing. For solving the XPath issue, 
we'd have to change the DOM implementation. 

> If only the latter, then the  change is probably not worth the effort, 

I agree.

> but if the former, then this change would be very, very nice to have.

Lets put it on the agenda for XMLC 3.0. A new DOM implementation is pretty 
much a given for XMLC 3.0 anyway, so we can just as well include case 
insensitive XPath support for HTML.

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