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From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 5/13/2009 1:17:00 AM

mat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

No, it looks very conventional to me. As others have posted, some 
disciplines prefer to separate with hyphens or underscores or periods; 
others prefer capitalisations like SeriesList.

> Can someone with more experience with XML let me know if my solution 
> is alright?

Go for it.

///Peter
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