Re: TAG case; XHTML; Flame Wars.

At 14:57 26/06/00 -0400, Reywob(at)aol.com wrote:
>I'm part of a team of volunteers providing support and tutorials at my ISP.
>One of the members of the team believes that HTML should be coded with the
>tags in UPPERCASE.  She won't accept that it might be better to code in lower
>case, as it isn't part of the HTML 4 standard.  She also believes that the
>XHTML spec is a load of rubbish, and sent this link
>(http://www.alistapart.com/stories/xhtml/index.html) to prove her point.

I think this is a case of "I've seen it on TV, so it HAS to be true!!"

To quote from the article: "XML is a general markup language" - any 
document that starts with that misunderstanding is sure to be full of it.

XML is a meta-language for creating markup languages - it is a subset of 
SGML and is in no way related to HTML.

Chris

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