Even though I personally prefer to avoid hyphens too, they are standard, if W3C recommendations qualify as standards.
>From the w3c xml spec: # Characters '-' and '.' are allowed as name characters. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#xml-names Definition: A Name is a token beginning with a letter or one of a few punctuation characters, and continuing with letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, colons, or full stops, together known as name characters.] Names beginning with the string "xml", or with any string which would match (('X'|'x') ('M'|'m') ('L'|'l')), are reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this specification. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-common-syn So, in this case, I guess avoiding hyphens is actually the path of least resistance (probably, a wise approach after all!). Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2008/7/2, Steven Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You might want to try following XML standards and best practices by not > using hyphens in XML node or attribute names. > > The only time I've seen hyphens in XML is when salespeople and other laymen > end up writing XML schemas. Why they're ever given authority to do such > things is beyond me. > > If it was me, I would fight tooth and nail to get those hyphens removed and > replaced with camel case. Best practices or die! ;) > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
