Re: output html as lower case?

Hi Richard,

At 10:01 AM 6/24/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Mark, Jake,
>
>On Monday 23 June 2003 22:36, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> > Just pinging the list about a conversation I had with David Li about making
> > XMLC output HTML in lower case.  HTML tags are not case sensitive, but
> > XHTML is (because it is XML compliant).  Now, the reason why having XMLC
> > output tags in all upper case is kind of annoying (besides the ugliness of
> > all upper case) is for things like XPath which, being an application of
> > XML, is also case sensitive.  If I write an XPath expression, it will only
> > work on HTML and not XHTML or vice-versa, but not both.
>
>I'm all for it. Maybe make this configurable in the output options and 
>have it
>default to upper case so we don't break any existing apps.

Cool, yes, it should probably be configurable.

>On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:42, Mark Diekhans wrote:
> > The string written for a tag is not actually under XMLC's control.  It uses
> > the name returned by Element.getTagName().
>
>Well, that's only part of the truth :-) XMLC still prints the tag name and 
>can
>just as well convert it to lower case first.

This is one are where I am not completely comfortable with making a 
change.  I'm not sure all the places that would have to be modified  to 
make this possible.  Do you have time to do this?  Also, if we are to do 
this, would this solve the original problem of the case-sensitivity of 
XPath?  That is, would the DOM actually be stored in lower case so that 
XPath can search through the html dom in lower case or would this only 
change the printing output of the html DOM?  If only the latter, then the 
change is probably not worth the effort, but if the former, then this 
change would be very, very nice to have.


Jake


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