Re: output html as lower case?

At 08:33 AM 6/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Richard Kunze <[email protected]> writes:
> > > but if the former, then this change would be very, very nice to have.
> >
> > Lets put it on the agenda for XMLC 3.0. A new DOM implementation is pretty
> > much a given for XMLC 3.0 anyway, so we can just as well include case
> > insensitive XPath support for HTML.
>
>Guys, this will break tons of code and it will no longer be W3C HTML
>compatiable DOM.  This is a either a bug or missing feature in
>XPath, depending on your point of view...  Submit a patch to em, the logic
>for checking for an HTML doc is easy:
>
>     if (node.getDocument() instanceof org.w3c.dom.html.HTMLDocument) {
>         .....
>     }

Agreed.  I'll ask the guys at Jaxen (used in DOM4j and elsewhere) and 
JXPath what their take on this issue is.  The XPath engine is probably 
where the case-sensitivity issues should be addressed rather than storing a 
non-standard DOM.

Jake

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