Remove statement that language tags MUST be lowercase
authorMarkus Lanthaler <mark_lanthaler@gmx.net>
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:53:13 +0100
changeset 1509 e4a59813e75d
parent 1508 c03ba6136cd6
child 1510 9b230d75277d
Remove statement that language tags MUST be lowercase

They are normalized to lowercase when transformed according our algorithms. That doesn't mean they MUST be lowercase to be valid in the data model.

See also http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013Mar/0039.html
spec/latest/json-ld-api/index.html
spec/latest/json-ld/index.html
--- a/spec/latest/json-ld-api/index.html	Fri Mar 29 12:49:42 2013 +0100
+++ b/spec/latest/json-ld-api/index.html	Fri Mar 29 12:53:13 2013 +0100
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
     <dt><tdef>language-tagged string</tdef></dt>
     <dd>A <tref>language-tagged string</tref> consists of a string and a non-empty language
       tag as defined by [[BCP47]]. The language tag must be well-formed according to
-      <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-2.2.9">section 2.2.9</a>
+      <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-2.2.9">section 2.2.9 Classes of Conformance</a>
       of [[BCP47]], and is normalized to lowercase.</dd>
     <dt><tdef>list</tdef></dt>
     <dd>A <tref>list</tref> is an ordered sequence of <tref title="IRI">IRIs</tref>,
--- a/spec/latest/json-ld/index.html	Fri Mar 29 12:49:42 2013 +0100
+++ b/spec/latest/json-ld/index.html	Fri Mar 29 12:53:13 2013 +0100
@@ -2705,8 +2705,8 @@
       <tref>IRI</tref>.</li>
     <li>A <tdef>language-tagged string</tdef> consists of a string and a non-empty language
       tag as defined by [[BCP47]]. The language tag MUST be well-formed according to section
-      <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-2.2.9">2.2.9</a> of [[BCP47]], and MUST
-      be lowercase.</li>
+      <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-2.2.9">2.2.9 Classes of Conformance</a>
+      of [[BCP47]].</li>
     <li>A <tdef>list</tdef> is an ordered sequence of zero or more
       <tref title="IRI">IRIs</tref>,
       <tref title="blank node">blank nodes</tref>, and