Q5215 Which parts of XML is case-sensitive?

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Q5215 Which parts of XML is case-sensitive?

All of an XML file is case-sensitive, both markup and text.

This is significantly different from HTML and many other SGML document types. It was introduced to allow markup in non-Latin-alphabet scripts and to obviate problems with case-folding in scripts which are caseless.