Re: Header field name case in XML

[Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@xxxxxxx>]

begin  quotation by Graham Klyne on 2003/2/10 17:18 +0000:
> 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.

This sounds right to me.  Since both (2) and (3) would be standards 
compliant, so the distinction is a quality of implementation issue, not a 
standards issue.

               - Chris