Lowercase Tags (was: Question About XML Format (was: Program Need ed))

I was confusing XML with XHTML which does require lowercase specifically.
Another casualty of the Alphabet Soup Wars.

That story about the coin flip that someone posted earlier sure explains a
lot (it's totally irrational but it explains it).  What are the alleged pros
of using lowercase tags though?
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Cabell [mailto:JeffC(at)HILLCO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:01 PM
To: Westbrook, Bryan
Subject: RE: Question About XML Format (was: Program Needed)


The specification is more along the lines of tags being case sensitive so
<Tag>, <tag>, and <TAG> are three separate tags.


-----Original Message-----
From: bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com [mailto:bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:11 PM
To: hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
Subject: Question About XML Format (was: Program Needed)


Why did the developers of XML decide to require all lowercase tags when the
rule of thumb for years had been to make all tags uppercase?

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