Re: simple redraft Re: Environment Variable Retrieval Spec

"John L. Clark" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xslt.extensions
Message-ID <20060218032451.GF10347@rejoice>
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:24:34AM +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> One thought has occurred to me. Environment variables are usually
> define in upper case, but not all O/Ss are case sensitive
>  - Linux certainly is, but Windows is not.
> 
> Should we change the specification to say that the local name should
> be upper-cased to determine the name of the environment variable?

Well, that would exclude referencing environment variables with
lower-case letters on case sensitive systems.  Should we just say that
implementations on case insensitive systems ought to compare the local
name to the environment variable name in a case insensitive manner?

Take care,

    John L. Clark

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