Of course :-). Thanks a lot, Geoffrey! -Matt
-----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey Sneddon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:59 AM To: Matt Hall Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [whatwg] Character casing for "Appropriate End Tags" and the "temporary buffer" Matt Hall wrote: > Apologies for the repost -- here is the original e-mail in plain text: > > > Prior to r4177, the matching of tag names for exiting the RCDATA/RAWTEXT > states was done as follows: > > "...and the next few characters do no match the tag name of the last start > tag token emitted (compared in an ASCII case-insensitive manner)" > > However, the current revision doesn't include any comment on character casing > in its discussion of "Appropriate End Tags." Similarly, certain tokenizer > states require that you check the contents of the "temporary buffer" against > the string "script" but there is no indication of whether or not to do this > in a case-insensitive manner. > > In both cases, should this comparison be done in an ASCII case-insensitive > manner or not? It might be helpful to clarify the spec in both places in > either case. It is already case-insensitive as you lowercase the characters when creating the token name and when adding them to the buffer. -- Geoffrey Sneddon - Opera Software <http://gsnedders.com/> <http://www.opera.com/>
