Re: HTML3 body tag

Dave Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Tue, 7 Mar 95 12:36:31 EST

> > <!ENTITY foobar SYSTEM "http://foo.com/bar.html.inc">
> >
> > &foobar;

> Is preferrable to
> > <INCLUDE ID=foobar NAME="foobar" HREF="http://foo.com/bar.html.inc"
> > REL="subdoc" REV="glossary"
> > TITLE="The definition of foobar is...">

> because the parser can validate the former, but not the latter.

Good argument!

> >As they are SGML NAMES, aren't they case insensitve?
>
> Not necessarily! The RFC sets

> NAMECASE GENERAL YES
> ENTITY NO

> (page 477 in Golfarb), but the RFC does not equal SGML!

I would prefer case insensitve names to avoid errors. How should
we change this?

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