Hello Helen
The FM Structured Developer Guide says the following (page 144):
Element tags are case-sensitive, and they can contain white space but none of
the following special characters:
( ) & | , * + ? < > % [ ] = ! ; : { } "
So it would appear that a period is allowed. However, if you are converting to
XML (in which a period is also legal), be aware that the W3C recommendation is:
Avoid "." characters. If you name something "first.name," some software may
think that "name" is a property of the object "first."
Hope this answers your question.
Roger
Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330
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From: Helen Borrie [mailto:[email protected]]
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:22:18 -0500
Subject: Dots in tag names
Is it legal to use dots in tag names?
For example,
part.title
part.number
chapter.title
chapter.number
body
body.first
and so on.
These tags are for chapters in a large book of several parts. It is being
written in unstructured Framemaker but eventually, after publication, much of
the content will be converted to structured FM (DITA). I am setting out to
"fix" a template that has a lot of tags with spaces in them. Already I have
encountered some problems with spaces in tag names during trial conversions. I
want to avoid "camel case" tags if I can.
Is there any reason to avoid the dotted style?
Thanks,
Helen
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