[PATCH] XML Policy

[Jason Keirstead]

On February 22, 2005 06:09 pm, Frans Englich wrote:
> So that's my motivation; the capitalization of XMLGUI is rare, and a format
> would unliklely be designed like that. 

What makes you think that? I have seen countless XML formats with capitalized 
tag names. Where do you get these statistics?

> But you think that's wrong; e.g, 
> what you mean is we should be consistent with XMLGUI, not with the general
> style of KDE. Right?

No, what I mean is that there should not be a guideline for this.. XML tag 
names are easy enough to read as they are. 

I see this as being the same as indentation in source code. As long as the 
*document itself* sticks to a convention, I don't see the need for any 
KDE-wide convention.

> Again, re-read. I specifically left out vocabularies which are internal.
> That paper is here only for the reasons you mention. Read it.

Well, maybe you should specify that in the document then?

"This policy specifies recommendations and conventions for XML related 
technologies in KDE."

Nowhere in the document does it say that 'The recommendations in this document 
apply only to XML APIs that are deemed to be noteworthy to third party 
application developers. you go on a bit about public namespaces, but the 
second on Element and Attribute names is not in that  section, and neither is 
the section on XML schemas.

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Jason Keirstead
http://www.keirstead.org