Re: [xmile] dashes vs underscores

[Karim Chichakly <kchichakly@iseesystems.com>]

Hi Will,

That was intentional.  All the XMILE-specific names use underscore.  Anything we use from CSS matches CSS (I think for obvious reasons).

Karim

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Will Glass-Husain <wglass@forio.com> wrote:

Hi,

Most of the model-related double words use in our standard use underscores to join them, e.g.

<options>

    <uses_conveyor/>

    <uses_arrays/>

</options>

and

<sim_specs>

  <start>0</start>

  <stop>10</stop>

  <dt>1</dt>

</sim_specs>

I notice that as a contrast, all the attributes in styles and the display encoding use dashes to separate multiple words.  This probably comes from the similarity to CSS.

<stock name=”Bathtub” x=”50” y=”100” width=”45” height=”35” label-side=”TOP” color=”blue” background-color=”white” z-index=”1” font-family=”Arial” font-size=”9pt” font-weight=”bold” font-style=”italic” text-decoration=”underline” text-align=”center” vertical-text-align=”center” text-padding=”2px” font-color=”blue” text-border-color=”black” text-border-thickness=”1px” text-border-style=”solid”/>

Do we care about the inconsistency?  If so, should we make them the same?

You could make an argument that for tag names we use an underscore and for attributes we use a dash...

WILL

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