Peter Flynn writes:
> > I'm using Emacs with PSGML 1.1.6 to enter TEI Lite markup. I notice
> > that I get <publicationstmt> instead of <publicationStmt>, although
> > the correct capitalisation is in teilite.dtd . Does this matter? Can
> > I fix it?
>
> No, it doesn't matter: the SGML Declaration for TEI Lite says so.
> I think psgml uses lowercase for all SGML element type names as
> a matter of convention.
But it matters a lot if you plan to switch to XML at any point. It was
an unfortunate TEI design decision to `recommend' case sensitivity, but
not enforce it, and then to compound the problem by moving the mixed
case names verbatim to the XML DTDs....
Sebastian
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