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One hint from the W3C could be taken from XHTML 1.0 -- formerly caseless HTML element and attribute names are now required to be all lower-case. Otoh, in most of my own recent projects, i've made explicit distinction between element and attribute names by using "proper noun" form for element types and all lower-case for attribute names. I've generally used underscores to separate "words" in the latter (20 yrs of C programming has clearly warped my mind) -- but i've also used camelBack in those situations where folks revile the "_". For example: <BookCatalog> <Book isbn=".." pages=".." pubDate="2000"> -OR- <.. pub_date="2000"> : -OR- <Book> <ISBN>..</ISBN> <Pages>..</Pages> : Given the processing differences between elements and attributes, imho, it is definitely worth using different name styles for these two kinds of names... Regards, Nik O P.S. It's your project -- what works best for you? Isn't this the real beauty of XML vs. HTML and other "standard" markup syntax? Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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