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I have more or less assumed XML DTDs/schemas would require attribute values to be case sensitive (typically lower case). For example, XLinks define the global XLink attributes and their values as lower case ("onLoad" and "onRequest" are exceptions). The XHTML 1.0 specification states that element and attribute names must be lower case, but it does not say anything about attribute values. Clearly script-related attributes like onload, onclick etc. are case sensitive, as is the value of the style attribute. So to me it would seem logical that all attribute values in XHTML should be case sensitive, and preferably lower case. Is this being addressed anywhere? A related issue is the Associating Stylesheets with XML Documents specification. It refers to HTML 4.0 for the semantics of the pseudo-attribute values. That spec predates XHTML 1.0, but it would seem logical that it should refer to XHTML 1.0 now. There might be other specifications that are affected by this; I have not looked. -- Heikki Toivonen
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