From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 14:19:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB9F16A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:19:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D708E43D31 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:19:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i79EJs2b082914 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:19:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i79EJsts082913 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:19:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:19:54 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040809141954.GA78399@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20040806110848.GC704@vaio.lab> <20040809134320.GC2150@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040809134320.GC2150@straylight.m.ringlet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE Subject: Re: Lowercase attribute names [Was: Re: small fix in the new-users article] X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:19:58 -0000 --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:43:20PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:08:48PM +0200, Marco Trentini wrote: > >=20 > > In the last commit I've noted URL in upper case. >=20 > It seems that both and are valid, > and both of them are used quite often throughout the whole articles/ > and books/ directories. According to "DocBook: The Definitive Guide", > in SGML DocBook all element and attribute names are case-insensitive, so > it's okay to keep them that way. > Always read the FDP first :) All attribute examples use lower cases; the lowercase need is not mentioned but examples can be used as information regarding the "right way." Nowadays, "quite all" *ML things use lowercase for attributes. > However, Norman Walsch does warn that lowercase names should be used for > XML DocBook. I'm not sure what the FreeBSD Documentation Project's > stance is on XML compatibility and on eventually moving to XML DocBook; > if this is the goal, then at some point we should do a search-and-replace > over most of the project's documents, since there are quite a few > URL=3D".." attributes all over the place. What do people think about tha= t? >=20 Well we should be consistent in our code, just to prevent someone to think uppercase is what to use. Since there are few "guilty" attributes, it should be fixed. Marc --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBF4gJ81T1MWxkgcoRAm1gAJ441RhGnHC3mrAIcuEVJ6hpr3sFMgCfQUSb ltnk99pPk+2Bny2MwGSlxVs= =hM3O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--