RE: Question About XML Format (was: Program Needed)

I prefer uppercase because it is easier to scan a file and pick out the
tags.  Others have defended the lowercase by pointing out that most editor
now color code the tags, but that makes it tool-dependent, which is
defeating some of the purpose of HTML.

For the past four months, I've actually been using a plain text editor and
have greatly enjoyed the level of control it gives me over my documents.


-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell King [mailto:darrell(at)webctr.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:08 PM
To: hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: Question About XML Format (was: Program Needed)


1) XML is case sensitive but not case-restrictive.  XHTML is what demands
lower case.

2) Upper case HTML was only the rule of thumb for those using upper case...I
always preferred lower...:)

 In programming, the rule of thumb is often uppercase for program and system
reserved variables and constants.  This would seem to support you inference
that upper case would have been the default, so the question is really a
good one.  If I remember correctly, it wasn't really much more than a coin
toss...

HWG hwg-xml mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters