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At Monday, 10 December 2001, Jeni wrote: >Does anyone know of a set of guidelines for designing markup languages >for processing with XSLT? Not specifically for XSLT, but Eve's book on DTD design has lots of good suggestions. >If not, it could be a useful resource to put >together somewhere. Things like: > > - keep numbers and units separate > - be consistent in case use in attribute/element values > - use namespaces to embed HTML in XML, not CDATA sections > >Any others? Store dates in ISO format (or provide an attribute to do this). Put categorical data in attributes, not in character data content. Umm. This would certainly be a good resource. -- ///Peter XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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