XML is, in general, case-sensitive. See the excellent comments in the Annotated spec on this topic (excerpted here):
http://www.xml.com/axml/notes/CaseSensitive.html The whole annotated spec (which I encourage everybody to read) is at: http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html In the DOM spec, check out the section 1.1.6 on "Case sensitivity in the DOM": http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html Mike Bruno Stuessi wrote: > > Element.getAttribute(String name) in Xerces 1.0.1 requires that name is > provided > case-sensitive ie as it it saved in th e XML file, but I think that the > implementation should > be NOT case-sensitive!