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Hi,
On 11/21/2011 10:51 AM, Andrew Welch wrote: Different companies have different stanards, sometimes they agree with my approach, sometimes they don't. Well, Mulberry has a style guide but it's just for us. :-) Spaces or tabs is only a problem if you have 2 people doing 2 different things or you like to set your tabs at a different spacing, doesn't make one right or wrong. There is a set of issues for which Mulberry commonly tells its clients "You need a rule, and you need to follow the rule. We like some rules better than others but it's more important that you have a rule and follow it than that you follow any particular rule". Sometimes we then add "oh, and if you make a rule and then change it, you're not following any rule at all". You have to indent your code somehow, so using 4 spaces is a fairly common way. Personally I prefer two spaces, but I know that others feel differently. Mulberry's rule for delimiting attribute values in our XSLT is probably closer to Ken's: while we prefer '"' (the double straight quote) out of habit and consistency in general, we also allow our developers a certain amount of flex as long as it favors legibility and intelligibility. So we'd be fine with single straight quotes around an attribute value (even just once) if the developer could avoid a more complicated workaround thereby. But I'm not sure this rule is among our rules as documented. I guess we should add it. (We have rules about our rules but we don't always follow them.) Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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