Re: [xsl] IGNORE CASE IN XSLT

[Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wendell,

> > It will not help a lot if one cannot predict the use of case in 
> > element names. :-( Especially documents that originate from HTML of 
> > SGML have this problem, as HTML and SGML are case insensitive...
> >
> > It even gets worse if you have to account for ancestors as wel... :-(
> >
> > It would have been nice if the XSL standard would have provided a case 
> > sensitivity option. But on the other hand, it is actually more a job 
> > for XML parsers. Are there XML Parsers that have an option to ignore 
> > case of the input? (not using a declaration file)
>
> Not as such (such would be an XML+ parser of a kind, not a conformant 
> XML processor), though you might be able to use an SGML parser.

2nd person to mention this..

XML+ yes, but I wouldn't say that the parser is violating the recommendation. It is an option, so it 
is up to the user to violate the XML rec...

Reconsidering my remarks, I don't think the ignore-case option is sufficient. Too often SGML and 
HTML are not well-formed. One indeed would be better off with an SGML parser.

Anyone knows a Java implementation?

G.