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Re: Case in SystemLiterals

• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: "Ingo Macherius" <Ingo.Macherius@T...>, xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:05:29 -0800

At 02:02 PM 16/12/97 +0000, Ingo Macherius wrote:
>Should XML try to overcome this (e.g. by requiring case-sensitivity in
>file:-URL, despite of the underlaying OS), or is this out of scope ?

Out of scope, I'd say.  file: URL's are a monster pain in the ass, 
especialy given Microsoft Operating System ideas about case-mapping...
I suspect that file: urls will only ever be useful in a local authoring
environment... if you want to ship a multi-part chunk, relative URLs
are way safer and have a chance of working correctly if you can just
get to the document entity. -Tim

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