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RE: Hyphens in XSLT element names
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- Subject: RE: Hyphens in XSLT element names
- From: sara dot mitchell at ps dot ge dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:31:22 -0500
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Or it may simply be that one of the design goals, i.e. human
readability, was in their minds at the time. For most
Western languages, hyphens are the choice for combining
words into a single entity.
Not to mention that hyphens are much easier to type -- that is
if you're a touch typist (:
Sara Mitchell
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Michael [mailto:Michael.Kay@icl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:04 AM
> To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
> Subject: RE: Hyphens in XSLT element names
>
>
> > So, I was hoping one of the XSLT
> > authors/contributors could tell me why they chose to use hyphens in
> > their element names?
>
> I expect their first programming language was COBOL and they
> were feeling
> nostalgic.
>
> Mike Kay
>
>
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