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Tim Bray wrote: > So XML is now case-sensitive. Sounds good, but what is the general opinion about case-sensitivity in XML applications? My own feeling is that it might be appropriate too have case insensitivity when you for example do a structural search in an XML browser or editor. It could also be useful when specifying patterns in XSL and alike. These things may of course fail if the document designer has chosen to distinguish elements only by case but I think that's unlikly to happen. I also have the feeling that the problem of case insensitive string comparison is not as dificult as the one of case folding. Case folding is a one to one mapping that might not be the same for different languages but when comparing strings you can treat groups of character, differentiated only in case and diacritics, to be the same. For example the characters i, ì, í, î, I, Ì etc could be treated as being equal in this situation. Is this a correct assumtion or am I missing something? Cheers, </David> ______________________________________________________________________________ David.Rosenborg@u... Ericsson Utvecklings AB (UAB/K/UG) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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