On Mon, 11 May 2009 12:28:13 +0100, Tom Anderson <twic@u...>
wrote:

>[crossposted to alt.usage.english!]
>
>On Sun, 10 May 2009, mat wrote:
>
>> Probably slightly off topic, but hopefully someone can give me some
>> insight to best practice.
>> My problem is I've got an element that's name is an irregular noun,
>> in this case "series"
>> So all the "series" elements need to be put inside another element,
>> currently I'm using "seriesList" because the plural of series is
>> series:
>>
>> <seriesList>
>>  <series>...</series>
>>  <series>...</series>
>>  <series>...</series>
>> </seriesList>
>>
>> A colleague told me that this may be considered bad practice in
>> naming XML elements.

Is there a convention that lower-case letters should normally be used
and that words should be separated with an underscore?

That would mean <seriesList> would be more conventionally written as
<series_list>.


>> Can someone with more experience with XML let me know if my solution
>> is alright?
>
>I can't claim a lot of experience with XML, but seriesList does look a bit 
>clunky. I am tempted to suggest serieses as the name of the outer element!
>
>Can you call series something else? There are other words that mean much 
>the same thing - list, sequence, succession, chain, run - all of which 
>have normal plurals. Or is series a word from your domain vocabulary that 
>can't be changed?
>
>tom

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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)