Issue 31311 - lowercase HTML tags for XHTML compliance
Summary: lowercase HTML tags for XHTML compliance
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.2
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P5 (lowest) Trivial with 8 votes (vote)
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: 75107 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2004-07-09 15:15 UTC by uflnuceng
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description uflnuceng 2004-07-09 15:15:40 UTC 
Dear OOo Panel:

Main Point:  The HTML source generated by the HTML editor uses uppercase tags.  
If you could make them lowercase, i.e. <html> as opposed to <HTML>, it would be 
easier for web designers who want to be XHTML Strict compliant to use OO.  For 
a decent summary of XHTML vs. HTML 4 and the various tags used please see 
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_reference.asp

Explanation:  I have been using OO for almost a month now.  I am really 
impressed with what I have found here and hope to be able to contribute more in 
the future as my programming skills increase.  Write, Math, and Presentation 
seem to be progressing well and have officially replaced MS Office which is 
still installed on my computer.  I was going to use the HTML editor to generate 
a skeleton for my website but when I viewed the source I found all the tags in 
capital letters.  I understand if you wish to keep the HTML editor as primarily 
HTML 4 compliant, but just changing the tags to lowercase would make it a lot 
easier for people who wish to be XHTML 1.0 compliant.  Other things such as 
attributes in quotations and all tags being ended, i.e. <hr /> versun just 
<hr>, would also be a bonus.  If you could possibly allow for the 3 different 
XHTML DTD (strict, transitional, and frames) that would also be a bonus.  Might 
I also suggest a CSS editor as well?  I doubt any of these should pop to the 
top of the to-do list, but the uppercase to lowercase would be a huge step into 
making the html editor more compatible with this web standard.

Thanks for making such a great product.
Jared Squires
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-07-09 16:16:06 UTC 
MRU->ES: please comment, if necessary, before reassigning to BH.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2004-07-12 18:02:20 UTC 
ES->BH: write by default HTML tags in lower case
Comment 3 ace_dent 2007-01-26 15:24:56 UTC 
Raised in '04... is it 'OOo Later' yet? ;-)
Would be nice to follow contemporary formatting/ style standards.
Comment 4 ace_dent 2007-03-05 08:41:46 UTC 
*** Issue 75107 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 crolidge 2007-03-05 10:56:17 UTC 
This initial user is absolutely right. HTML tags NEED to be coded in lowercase
as per W3C standards. This is a priority issue for the HTML component. As soon
as resources are available it would be great if someone could start fixing this
bug. We webdesigners thank for it !!
Comment 6 stp 2007-03-17 22:17:49 UTC 
Tags are listed in:
/svtools/inc/htmlkywd.hxx
/svtools/source/svhtml/htmlkey2.cxx

However, I don't know if it is doable just to lowercase these tags.
Comment 7 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:47:47 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".