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no not at the moment Jordan he's waiting till we meet you again north of the border


Thanks everyone, for your help

"He's waiting till we meet you again north of the border. "

Is that because crimes are harder to trace in Scotland?

—Jordan

I believe I've already said this to you on Jim Lynn's page, Jordan, but I'll repeat it here for anyone who's interested.

XML is case-sensitive. The following tags may all mean completely different things in an XML dialect (and none of them mean anything in any XML dialect I know of).






An SGML language (and XML is a subset of SGML), may be case-sensitive or not as it wishes. As it happens, HTML was not case-sensitve. To minimise confusion, then, when XHTML 1.0 was brought in instead of the expected HTML 5.0, it was defined as being all lower-case. This is not, though, an attribute of XML dialects in general. It is not, for example, an attribute of GuideML, which wants everything in upper case.

The GuideML parser is fairly forgiving, and will allow tags like and to work, but it demands that they be closed with their exact equivalents.

... will work, and ... will not.

TRiG.

Oh, and much to the good doctor!

TRiG.

Bother!

"I believe I've already said this to you on Jim Lynn's page, Jordan, but I'll repeat it here for anyone who's interested."

Yep, but hopefully others will find it interesting too. For some reason I had decided that XML only accepted lowercase (probably because almost all the XML I've seen or used is), but apparently that is not the "case".

Also, on further thought, I've decided it's probably best that the parser makes sure your GuideML is well-formed XML instead of allowing for HTML-like shorthands, considering that it's not that much effort to put the extra tags in, and it enforces the discipline of closing tags (which is one of the reasons for moving to XHTML).

—Jordan