Re: Header field name case in XML

[Chris Croome <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Graham

On Mon 10-Feb-2003 at 05:18:06PM +0000, Graham Klyne wrote:
> 
> OK, here's a suggestion that partially addresses your concerns:
> 
> (1) the XML format always uses lower case form of header field
> names in element names.  Therefore, when mapping from
> RFC2822->XML, all field names are converted to lowercase.
> 
> (2) software that generates RFC2822 from the XML creates
> "conventional case" output for those header fields for which it
> knows the conventional casing.
> 
> (3) software that generates RFC2822 from the XML creates
> all-lower-case output for any other header field names.
> 
> I note that items (2) and (3) are not within the scope of the XML
> message format specification.

Yes, this makes sense to me, I can't think of a better suggestion.

Chris

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