Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:12:37 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lowercase attribute names [Was: Re: small fix in the new-users article] Message-ID: <20040809171236.GC78399@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20040809145334.GD2150@straylight.m.ringlet.net> References: <20040806110848.GC704@vaio.lab> <20040809134320.GC2150@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <20040809141954.GA78399@abigail.blackend.org> <20040809145334.GD2150@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
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--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--
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