Michele:
XML and all applications (XHTML, MARCXML, &c) thereof are case sensitive.
the EAD DTD throws no surprises as to case variation; all general
identifier names are lowercase. I'm confused that you had to UPPERCASE your
instance documents.
St.
Stephen Yearl
Systems Archivist
Yale Unviersity
At 08:04 AM 11/11/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> > I'm beginning using EAD 2002 and I have a question. I don't know how to
> > configure EAD 2002 DTD to work in XML mode.
>
>I don't believe you have to do anything at all -- EAD 2002 is already an XML
>dtd. I'm using the EAD 2002 DTD with XMeTaL and haven't had any problem
>except that it's case sensitive, so some of our old documents had to be run
>through a quick conversion process to change the tags to all upper case.
>Does anyone on this list know why case sensitivity was thought to be a good
>thing? I can't figure out why any sane person would want to make DTDs case
>sensitive...and is case sensitivity an XML thing, or could I turn it off in
>the declaration somehow without violating XML principles?
>
>Michele
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