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RE: Convention versus standard

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:33:23 +0100

> 
> What conventions have formed in the XML community?  Are there 
> any conventions that have become universally accepted?  Are 
> there conventions that have been adopted only within a community?

There are zillions of such conventions.

We notice them when people don't follow them:

- bad indenting

- using unconventional namespace prefixes

- putting attributes in a namespace without good justification

- encoding information into element names that should be in attributes

- using mixed content for data when the content is meaningless without the
tags

- using meaningless element names

- attaching meaning to things that should be irrelevant, like comments or
CDATA delimiters

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

• References:
  • Convention versus standard
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>