Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xmlschema-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: Element names guidelines [Thread Next] Re: Element names guidelinesTo: xmlschema-dev@--.--- Date: 11/18/2004 3:45:00 AM Frans Englich wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 14:55, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > >>I prefer underscore for word breaks: car_description > > > Why underscore instead of dash(-)? I would say a dash is easier & faster to > type, otherwise they're pretty similar. Because dash needs to be usable for hyphenated words used as part of tag names. It's also more consistent with usage in most programming languages, where "-" cannot be used as a name character. Cheers, E. From mike@s... Thu Nov 18 17:01:25 2004 Received: | ||||||
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