From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 17:12:40 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 91A3216A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6329043D5F for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:12:39 +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 i79HCbwb085555 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:12:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i79HCbH2085554 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:12:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:12:37 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040809171236.GC78399@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20040806110848.GC704@vaio.lab> <20040809134320.GC2150@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <20040809141954.GA78399@abigail.blackend.org> <20040809145334.GD2150@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040809145334.GD2150@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 17:12:40 -0000 --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:53:34PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: >=20 > I think I may have misphrased my e-mail a bit :) IMHO, all elements and > attributes should be lowercase, be it for standards compliance or simply > for readability. Still, I wondered if there was some reason for the > fact that nobody has changed the uppercase URL attributes to lowercase - > either nobody had noticed (apparently that seems to be the case), or > they were indeed acceptable and there was no need to change them. > If you look at which docs use the uppercase scheme, you'll notice that they're not the actively maintained ones. > So... it would be okay for me to sweep the docs tree and change all > element and attribute names (mostly ulink URL) to lowercase? >=20 Since we may have to do it in future for compliance reasons, I think we should do it now. Marc --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBF7CD81T1MWxkgcoRAqyXAJ4kfkn6WAqKyBswQ6VV+/yAYuq4NACfYH/H szDbtD2i4PsaWmQSYW6rQGo= =XVFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ--