Re: [whatwg] Lowercase attribute values
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Aug 28, 2005, at 09:56, Henri Sivonen wrote: How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error? On further reflection, it seems to me the latter has to be chosen at least for a parser that is intended to be used as a part of a conformance checker. Otherwise input type=RADİO ... would pass. For the most part this is now defined spec-wide. Let me know if any individual cases haven't been addressed and I can fix them relatively quickkly, now that I have the right infrastructure in place for this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] Lowercase attribute values
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Aug 28, 2005, at 09:56, Henri Sivonen wrote: How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error? On further reflection, it seems to me the latter has to be chosen at least for a parser that is intended to be used as a part of a conformance checker. Otherwise input type=RADİO ... would pass. Good point. Ok, ASCII-only it is. Can't find this in the spec atm, maybe it's on your to-do list. You need to define what case-insensitive means. For some background, you can see the relevant discussions for CSS http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2007/12/12/case_sensitivity ~fantasai
Re: [whatwg] Lowercase attribute values
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: In XHTML there are attributes whose value must be in lowercase, although in HTML the value is case-insensitive. The most common example is the method attribute of the form element. But should rev and rel be lowercased? A piece of software that maps from the HTML flavor of HTML5 to the XHTML flavor and needs to decide which attribute values to lowercase. How should the decision be done? Based solely on the attribute name? (In which case 'type' would be interesting.) Based on both the element name and the attribute name? What is the recommended method for the author of such a piece of software for extracting the list of special cases from the spec? There are no more differences between XHTML and HTML now as far as this goes, as far as I know. Please let me know if I missed one. How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error? So long as you don't do it in the Turkish locale, it should be fine. I haven't really made the spec very clear on this yet, but there's a red box about it; it'll be dealt with in due course. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] Lowercase attribute values
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Aug 28, 2005, at 09:56, Henri Sivonen wrote: How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error? On further reflection, it seems to me the latter has to be chosen at least for a parser that is intended to be used as a part of a conformance checker. Otherwise input type=RADİO ... would pass. Good point. Ok, ASCII-only it is. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
[whatwg] Lowercase attribute values
In XHTML there are attributes whose value must be in lowercase, although in HTML the value is case-insensitive. The most common example is the method attribute of the form element. But should rev and rel be lowercased? A piece of software that maps from the HTML flavor of HTML5 to the XHTML flavor and needs to decide which attribute values to lowercase. How should the decision be done? Based solely on the attribute name? (In which case 'type' would be interesting.) Based on both the element name and the attribute name? What is the recommended method for the author of such a piece of software for extracting the list of special cases from the spec? How should the lowercasing be performed? Using the locale-insensitive Unicode case data or for ASCII only treating non-ASCII as an error? -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
