Lowercase attribute names [Was: Re: small fix in the new-users article]

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:53:34PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

Since we may have to do it in future for compliance reasons, I think we
should do it now.

Marc
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