Re: [cinjug-users] Standard XML tags

["Eric Bardes" <ericbardes@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've observed that it varies based upon industries.

 

<thisthat> is the one in place at my current location and they have a team devoted to designing DTD's for XML transfer among systems.  <copyrightinfo> and <itemname> and <itemnumber> are generic examples from the DTD.

 

 

The National Institue of Health has some public DTD's with elements named <article-commentary>.  See http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/2.2/journalpublishing.dtd  for theirs.  This appears to hold for much of the medical DTD's I've seen.

 

In the legal world, they seem to prefer CamelCase

<!ELEMENT Case  (CaseNumber?,CaseCaption,Parties*,JudicialOfficers?) >
<!ELEMENT Court  (CourtName,CourtType?,CourtJurisdiction?,CourtCountry?,Address?) >
<!ELEMENT Stipulations  (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT SessionInfo  (SessionDate?,DateContinuedFrom?,StartTime?,EndTime?,
               DayOfProceedings?,Address?,CourtRoom?,Appearances?,Reporters?,Volume?,
               Exhibit+) >
 

On 11/28/06, twcrone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <twcrone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is <this-that> a more "standard" XML tag than <thisThat>, <ThisThat> or <THIS_THAT>?

Using the "lowercase dash" format seems pretty standard in XML configuration files but I am not sure if that is considered the "best" way to do tags for data exchange files.

Thanks,

- Todd

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Cheers,
Eric Bardes