[x3d-public] x3d case sensitivity

[Andreas Plesch]

Hello Leonard,

thanks for the quick clarification. General case sensitivity makes more
sense. Is there a sense of how case sensitivity was favoured over case
insensitivity originally, probably when VRML was designed ?

Andreas


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:00 PM, <x3d-public-request at web3d.org> wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:47:19 -0700
> From: Leonard Daly <Leonard.Daly at realism.com>
> To: x3d-public at web3d.org
> Subject: Re: [x3d-public] x3d case sensitivity
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> According to the standard X3D is case-sensitive
> XML:
>
> http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19776-1/V3.3/Part01/concepts.html#XMLEncoding
> (9th paragraph)
> VRML:
>
> http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19776-2/V3.3/Part02/concepts.html#ClassicVRMLEncoding
> (6th paragraph)
> Compressed Binary: Use XML as an intermediate step so those rules apply.
>
> That does not mean that browser hard-enforce that requirement.
>
> The X3DOM browser is not case sensitive because HTML tags are not (in
> HTML5), though there is a very strong preference for lower case (even in
> compound words - e.g., onclick).
>
> In the non-HTML environment, case sensitivity should apply to nodes,
> fields, and keywords (e.g., DEF, USE, IS, etc.)
>
>
> Leonard Daly
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