Bug#568347: libsaxon-java: should use upper case for encoding names

[brian m. carlson]

Package: libsaxon-java
Version: 1:6.5.5-6
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/java/saxon.jar

When using a stylesheet and source file that both use XML text
declarations of

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

but the stylesheet does not provide an xsl:output element, Saxon
produces output containing the following declaration:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

According to the XML 1.0 Recommendation (Fifth Edition),

  XML processors SHOULD match character encoding names in a
  case-insensitive way....

This is a should: XML processors *should* do it, but are not obligated
to do it, and an XML processor may legitimately reject the encoding
declaration as unknown.  The Recommendation also states:

  In an encoding declaration, the values " UTF-8  ", " UTF-16  ", "
  ISO-10646-UCS-2  ", and " ISO-10646-UCS-4  " SHOULD be used for the
  various encodings and transformations of Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646....

Saxon should produce an XML prolog that uses "UTF-8" instead of "utf-8".
Xalan and xsltproc already produce such a declaration.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libsaxon-java depends on:
ii  default-jre [java2-runtime]   1.6-34     Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  gcj-4.4-jre [java2-runtime]   4.4.3-1    Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  gcj-jre [java2-runtime]       4:4.4.2-3  Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  openjdk-6-jre [java2-runtime] 6b17-1.7-1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo

libsaxon-java recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libsaxon-java suggests:
ii  libjdom1-java               1.1.1+dfsg-1 lightweight and fast library using
pn  libsaxon-java-doc           <none>       (no description available)

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