On Friday 03 May 2002 12:44, Diana Shannon wrote:
>. . .
>    www.apache.org/cocoon/faqs/02050308
>. . .

I like numbers for FAQ items, or maybe structured numbers like 
"faqs/03.0200/faq-03.200.html" meaning section 3 FAQ 200 (see below about the 
redundancy in the filename).

But for larger documents I much prefer descriptive names, which must be well 
chosen. Worst case, if a name is changed you may leave a document with the 
old name pointing to the new one.

Problem with non-descriptive filenames is when someone saves the page 
to disk (or prints it to PDF), loses the path and gets a document name like 
"20020423.html". In this case "cocoon-rocket-launch-howto.html" is much 
better IMHO, even if there is some redundancy between path and filename 
(using - or _ as name separator, whatever).

> 2. I assume we need to continue the use of extensions for static site
> versions 
>. . .

yes, AND for lame browsers (that I won't name here ;-) that need a file 
extension to know that a document is XML or HTML.

-Bertrand


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