XML standards

i recommend this book

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxml/

Well, XML is pretty verbose.

I thought I'd just throw out a good xml link in case you missed it:
XML Tutorial (www.w3schools.org)

Personally I think using lowercase throughout the xml parts looks the best. That way it is easier to get an overview of what is xml text and what is content text so to speak, since lowercase text has a different "look" than mixed case text.

I think a standard XML coding style might be useful.

Quote:

Original post by Boder pos3D="33:400:-20" ..... pos2D="14:23"

This is not a good idea because it requires the application to do parsing (which could easily done by the XML parser instead) and there is no way for the XML parser to check it's validity (so something that the parser says is valid could, in fact, be invalid).

Compare that to

    <pos3D x="33" y="400" z="-20">    <pos2D x="14" y="23"> 

In this case, the parser (with an appropriate schema) can can check that the elements have the proper attributes and that the attribute values are the correct type.

I think I'm going to go Lumixed sytle. All elements begin with a capital and all attributes are lowercased with no underscore separators.

Thanks for the links. And thanks Mr. Bolton for that explanation.