RE: CAPS?

by Ryan Fischer <fischer(at)email.unc.edu>

Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:44:08 -0400
To:	Ian.Davis(at)ccmail.eu.sony.co.jp (Ian Davis), "Ben Z. Tels" <optimusb(at)stack.nl>, "Beverly K" <bev_k(at)hotmail.com>, <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>
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At 03:24 PM 8/10/98 +0100, Ian Davis wrote:
>Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that XML is simply case sensitive

Don't you mean case-insensitive?  'Cause you're wrong in one way or
another.  XML is *case-sensitive*

>i.e you can write:
><AUTHOR>....</AUTHOR>
><AuthOR>....</AuthOR>
><authoR>....</authoR>

No you can't.  The only way you can write this is:

	<AUTHOR> ... </AUTHOR>

>I believe attributes follow the same rules

Attributes must be in lowercase.

>and yes, values must be enclosed in quotes.

Correct.

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