Thanks everyone, I appreciate the info. Tim Ferguson
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Veillard Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JDEV] xml tag case sensitivity On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:20:09AM -0700, Tim Ferguson wrote: > Is my understanding correct in that tags should be case-sensitive, so that > <tag/> is different from <TAG/>? Should I also assume that namespaces are Yes, per the XML spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#GIMatch Char and Names productions are case sensitive. And the start tag and end tag must match exactly. > case-sensitive so that jabber:iq:auth is separate from JABBER:IQ:AUTH? I Yes the string used as the URI in namespaces should be used in a case insensitive fashion. Not even URI normalization rules should be applied. > have seen a couple of clients that appear to work case-insensitive, thus my > questions. It seems there is an number of not-even-close-to-XML implementations around and I suggest to stay far away from them (especially for server code !) to avoid serious problems. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
