Re: [xml-dev] Should one adopt the tag naming convention of anexisting X

[Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are two possibilities:
>
> 1. I will create a my own tag naming convention, independent of the XML vocabularies that I will use.
>
> 2. I will adopt the tag naming convention of one of the XML vocabularies that I will use. (Which one?)
>
> What do you recommend?


There is only one way :) names should be all lower-case, with hyphen
as a separator.  Camel case, or any thing else really, are awful for
xml.

I strongly agree, but of course this one is a very subjective matter. I curse Java for its propagation of the CamelCase eyesore.

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