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RE: a useful naming convention

• To: 'Bryan Rasmussen' <bry@i...>
• Subject: RE: a useful naming convention
• From: Barwell Jonathan <Jonathan.Barwell@a...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:08:03 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• Return-receipt-to: Barwell Jonathan <Jonathan.Barwell@a...>

Example

<Root>
  <Atag>
    <btag/>
    <ctag/>
  </Atag>
</Root>

<btag> evolves and needs to change to become a complex element.  Do you rename <btag> to <Btag> because it is now a complex structure, or keep it lower case?

<Root>
  <Atag>
    <btag>
      <dtag/>
    </btag>
    <ctag/>
  </Atag>
</Root>

Even worse what if <btag> needs to incorporate a complex structure.  Now <btag> includes upper case elements.

<Root>
  <Atag>
    <btag>
      <Dtag>
         <etag/>
         <ftag/>
      </Dtag>
    </btag>
    <ctag/>
  </Atag>
</Root>

Either way <btag> becomes inconsistant with the naming convention.

--
Jon Barwell

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Rasmussen [mailto:bry@i...]
Sent: 02 August 2005 08:57
To: Barwell Jonathan
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE: a useful naming convention

Citat Barwell Jonathan <Jonathan.Barwell@a...>:

> The one big problem I can see with this is that if you subsequently
> want to restructure your schema, e.g. a simple tag needs complex
> structure, then you not only have to restructure but you have to
> rename the tags as well.  This will look nice to start with but after
> a couple of evolutions there will be Upper and Lower case tags all
> over the place.
>

Do you mean that your upper and lower case tags will not be sorted properly in your schema?

--
Bryan Rasmussen

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