RE: Question About XML Format (was: Program Needed)
by Mark Stradling <mark.stradling(at)blueberry.net>
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Interesting Bryan, I always preferred lowercase because it was easier to
scan!
Tag case has always been a matter of personal preference - either of the
developer cutting code in a language or the developer writing the language
it's self.
Just on 'internet' languages we have developers who prefer lowercase,
developers who prefer uppercase and the people who created JavaScript going
for all lowercase, unless it's the first letter of an English word, unless
that letter is the first letter of the string (onClick, etc)!
Netscape used to recommend you followed this for your JavaScript variable
definitions to.
Enough aimless rambling,
Mark Stradling
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com [mailto:bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com]
> Sent: 18 January 2001 21:09
> To: hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
> Subject: RE: Question About XML Format (was: Program Needed)
>
>
> I prefer uppercase because it is easier to scan a file and
> pick out the
> tags. Others have defended the lowercase by pointing out
> that most editor
> now color code the tags, but that makes it tool-dependent, which is
> defeating some of the purpose of HTML.
>
> For the past four months, I've actually been using a plain
> text editor and
> have greatly enjoyed the level of control it gives me over my
> documents.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrell King [mailto:darrell(at)webctr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:08 PM
> To: hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: Question About XML Format (was: Program Needed)
>
>
> 1) XML is case sensitive but not case-restrictive. XHTML is
> what demands
> lower case.
>
> 2) Upper case HTML was only the rule of thumb for those using
> upper case...I
> always preferred lower...:)
>
> In programming, the rule of thumb is often uppercase for
> program and system
> reserved variables and constants. This would seem to support
> you inference
> that upper case would have been the default, so the question
> is really a
> good one. If I remember correctly, it wasn't really much
> more than a coin
> toss...
>
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