Fw: table.el html tag case

[Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>]

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table.el has a feature to generate HTML script from a give text table.
"Trent Buck" <fubarbaz@bigpond.com> requested me to change the current
uppercase HTML tags to lowercase tags so that it is compatible with
XHTML standard.  If nobody objects I will modify as he requested.

-Tak

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From: "Trent Buck" <fubarbaz@bigpond.com>
To: "Ota, Takaaki" <Takaaki.Ota@us-ti-xims-1.am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: table.el html tag case
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:30:52 -0800
Message-ID: <20050222063052.03597b53@harpo.marx>

Up spake Tak Ota:
>> Currently (version 22.1), table.el produces uppercase HTML tags.
>> Is there a compelling reason for this?
>
> Even the latest HTML 4.0 (at http://www.w3.org) is specified using
> uppercase tags.

Huh.  I hadn't noticed.  All the HTML I've seen that's been written
since the 90's has been lowercase.

> But as you point out XHTML does use lowercase for tags and the case is
> significant.  I wonder if we should introduce another mode XHTML in
> addition to the existing HTML.  What do you think?

Well ordinary HTML4 is case-insensitive, so simply lowercasing the tags
would make it valid HTML4 *and* XHTML, right?

If so, having a separate XHTML mode seems like overkill to me.

-- 
-trent
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
way.  This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks
of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin

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