Re: first proposal

[Lauren Wood <lauren@sqwest.bc.ca>]

On 29 Nov 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:

> Matter of taste, I guess. That means we have four choices:
> 
> 1. All UPPERCASE, as per 9401
> 2. All lowercase
> 3. camelCase like XML Schema, Java identifiers, etc.
> 4. CamelCase like the SGML DocBook DTD (though only because case
>    didn't matter)
> 
> I prefer 2 and 3 to 1 and 4.

How about number 3, then, since I'd prefer 3 or 4. Other opinions?

> I wasn't suggesting "source" and "target" literally, just that we
> pick consistent names for the left and right hand sides.
> 
> I'm not real thrilled with
> 
> <public publicid="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
>         href="/share/doctypes/docbook/xml/docbookx.dtd"/>

No, I guess not. Any other suggestions?

> The "public" in publicid seems redundant and I'm not terribly pleased
> with "href" either; this isn't a hypertext reference. Maybe the right
> hand side should always be "uri"?

OK by me.

> Looking forward, assuming we add some new specific keywords instead of
> complete generality, what do we use as attribute names for
> 
> <stylesheet ... uri="..."/>
> <namespaceName ... uri="..."/>
> <schemaLocation ... uri="..."/>
[...]
> Yep. I don't mind long names as long as they're clear. But I'm not
> delighted with LoadCatalog, since it's the only one that's got a verb
> in it.
[...]
> 
> Maybe just 'import'. (The semantics of the CATALOG directive are more
> like xsl:import than xsl:include.)
> 
> Yes, I think I vote for 'import' all by itself.

Works for me.


Lauren