Re: [PHP-DEV] Case of XML tags and attributes From: Paul DuBois (paul <email protected>)
Date: 07/14/00

At 8:26 PM -0500 2000-07-14, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>Why is it that the XML tags and attributes passed to XML handlers are all
>uppercase, even though the XML file itself contained only lowercase
>versions of those? As far as I know XML requires its tags to be lowercased,
>so why this inconsistency?
>
>-Andrei

XML doesn't require tags to be lowercase (or uppercased, for that
matter). In fact, XML tags are case-sensitive, unlike HTML. The PHP
behavior of uppercasing tags by default comes, I suppose, because many
of the early applications don't want <abc> and <ABC> treated differently
and folding them allows the application not to have to modify the tags
itself or perform more complicated equality testing. But that's just a
guess.

Personally, I prefer not to have my tags messed with, so I set the option
that defeats case-folding. 

-- 
Paul DuBois, paul <email protected>

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