Re: XHTML (WAS: Re: no xmlns attribute in the xsl dtd?)

[Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx>]

"John E. Simpson" wrote:
> 
> At 11:24 AM 3/2/99 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:

> >You could, if you were brave, write a merged DTD which included the XSL
> >DTD and the XHTML DTD and treated the namespace prefixes opaquely. Then,
> >as long as you don't use namespace defaulting and always use the same
> >namespace prefix, you can validate using traditional tools.
> 
> I noticed that the XHTML WD (19990224) specifies that all elements must be
> in lowercase. This made sense -- since XML is case-sensitive, the WG had to
> pick either upper or lower -- but it also made me curious about something:
> How, in an SGML DTD, does one specify that the case of a given tag is not
> significant?

I don't think you can do it in an SGML DTD but IIRC there is NAMECASE in
the SGML declaration.

For XML, of course, the question does not arise.

--
Chris


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