Original Message From: "Tim Bray"
>> On Aug 4, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
>>
>> ...
> If I wanted to publish a little XML vocabulary for donkey genetics, all
> the elements would have names like <org.tbray.donkeys.father> and
> <org.tbray.donkeys.birth-date> and so on. And if this were being used by
> IETF when we did atom, the tags would be like <org.ietf.atom.feed> and
> <org.ietf.atom.entry>. That's all. Distributed extensibility, and you
> can mix & match without asking anyone. -T
Non-reversed still works better for me, i.e.:
<father.donkeys.tbray.org>
<birth-date.donkeys.tbray.org>
<feed.atom.ietf.org>
<entry.atom.ietf.org>
It's easier to read, code completion tools will work better and
non-programmers will understand it more readily.
Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
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