I personally favor using lowercase words separated with dashes (-).

Me too.

Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, MenTaLguY wrote:

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:06:08 -0400 From: MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> To: Inkscape ML inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] convention for XML names

Although it's not crucial, could we settle on using XML names that adhere to a specific convention?

I'm a little worried that having:

inkscape:one-thing

inkscape:another_thing

inkscape:YetAnotherThing

its a tiny difference but wouldnt that be starting off as lowercase?

inkscape:yetAnotherThing

as element/attribute names in the same SVG file, while permissible, looks unprofessional.

The SVG spec seems to be similarly inconsistant (quickly grabbed from the SVG Mobile specs):

altGlyph, altGlyphDef, altGlyphItem, glyphRef, text, textPath, tref, tspan

and

definition-src, font, font-face, font-face-format, font-face-name, font-face-src, font-face-uri,

I'm thinking there is some sort of consistancy here, I'm just not sure entirely what it is.

Anthing that is style related seems to be consistantly of the form item-name and things looking at other things like viewBox and textPath there really seems to be a pattern, I'm sure there must be a rule (at least an informal convention) already.

I personally favor using lowercase words separated with dashes (-).

definately makes sense to me at least for style related information

Hope that helps.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan