XML Nit-pick

[Karl]

Hmm? HTML isn't case sensitive. XML shouldn't be, either.

*Looks it up*

WTF, XML *is* officially case sensitive! What moron came up with that one? Case sensitivity is horrible, horrible, horrible, bad-design, an anacronism tossed on the world by designers who should know better. Oh, I really want to distinguish between tags named <foo> and <Foo>, with foo having a totally different meaning then Foo. Don't you?

No! Of course not! It's totally stupid, and turns missed capitilization into "errors", not to mention enabling duplicate naming like <foo> and <Foo> and <FOO>. Jeez, talk about bad coding....

Case sensitivity is one of the worst thorns ever tossed upon the computer world. Jeez, you'd think we'd have learned by now. You'd think newer standards like XML would be better? Nope! Feh, XML standards suck. Thank you XML, for taking the elegance and intelligence of HTML and screwing it up.

*Pukes on XML standards*

I say ignore the moronic standards and treat it case insensitive like it should be.

[goat not sheep]

But, with case sensitivity, you can double the amount of UNIDs, and other things...

[Burzmali]

Well, C is case sensitive, Java is case sensitive, and English is case sensitive. I doubt "some people are too lazy to match their tags" is a good enough reason to implement case insensitivity.

For reference, the only reason HTML is case-insensitive, is because it generates a definite output (a web page), XML has no definite output, and has no reason to implement a ridiculous requirement like case-insensitivity to cater to those who code sloppy.

[Karl]

English isn't case sensitive.

ALLOW mE To DEMonSTRATE the Case inSENsitiVEity of enGLISH.

I doubt "some people are too lazy to match their tags" is a good enough reason to implement case insensitivity.

No but capitalization changes (usally from typos, not "laziness", by the way) that cause random bugs is more then enough reason to do it.

And having variables with names that are spelled the same but have different values is more then enough to do it.

XML... has no reason to implement a ridiculous requirement like case-insensitivity to cater to those who code sloppy.

Say what? There are so many things wrong with that statement I don't know where to begin....

Oh, Never mind... if you don't already understand why case sensitivity accomplishes nothing useful and causes obnoxous problems, then there's little point in trying to explain it to you. There's no substitute for experience, and if you've had significant experience in debugging case sensitive vs. case insensitive code, you'd intuitively agree with me.

EDIT: Yeah, I pulled the "I'm the better programmer then you card." Don't sweat it... If you're mad about it you can go and claim that you're a better programmer then me or something. It really doesn't matter and would be a rather silly argument anyway... all that matters is that case sensitivity is stupid and should be eradicated at every opportunity.

[goat not sheep]

Gee...i don't really care if it's case sensitive or not, I'm not "too" lazy...

[Karl]

Gee...i don't really care if it's case sensitive or not, I'm not "too" lazy...

Hehe, that's awesome! *Thumbs up*