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RE: file extensions best practice

• To: "'am'" <am@f...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: file extensions best practice
• From: "Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@m...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:01:53 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <20030902002607.GA606@l...>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: am [mailto:am@f...] 
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 20:26
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  file extensions best practice
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christian Nentwich [mailto:christian@s...]
> > The cons (?):
> > 
> > - The files are not recognisable as XML files anymore and 
> the standard 
> > XML editors won't list them
> > - Web servers won't generate the correct headers unless reconfigured
> > - The space for 3 digit file prefixes is small, and ours would look 
> > like .x?? which make sthe space even smaller
> > 
> > Is there anything I'm missing? What are people's opinions on this?
> 
> What about appending the file type to the filename, and keep 
> the xml extension:
> 
> blabla1_book.xml
> blabla2_book.xml
> 
> or   book_blabla1.xml
>      book_blabla2.xml 
> ?


Then, what about:

	Blabla1.book.xml
	Blabla2.book.xml 

?

I have used something like the following for some time:

	Mydocument.doc.zip

which I think makes it clear that it is a ".doc" inside a ".zip".

Alessandro Triglia


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