The Naming of Classes [was Re: [tei-council] Council class meeting notes]

[Lou Burnard]

Syd Bauman wrote:

>>I think introducing a hyphen into the world of TEI naming
>>meta-characters really would be inconsistent., and "Sibling" is
>>both too long and (I think) misleading -- see my reply to Christian
>>yesterday.
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>I was figuring we'd introduce these hyphens in a consistent way. But
>your reply to Christian yesterday convinced me that "Sibling" is even
>less desirable than "Like" (or "-like").
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I don't doubt that it would be consistent, but it seems mad to have 
camelCasing AND dots AND hyphens to do token separation in different 
circumstances


>>Please make a suggestion for untwisting it.
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><item>If the class members are all children of the element after
>which the class is named, then the first suffix should be
><code>Part</code>; if the class members are all siblings of the
>element after which the class is named, then the first suffix should
>be <code>Like</code>.</item>
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This is OK, but misses the point that "like" things are not only 
siblings -- they are also semantically related. And there are siblings 
which are not like.

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