[tei-council] naming conventions

stuart yeates syeates at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 02:06:38 EST 2011


On 05/12/11 03:15, Lou Burnard wrote:

> Do you think this material *should* go into the Guidelines?

Absolutely. There is a considerable body of work from software 
engineering and technical writing that consistent styling is important 
for systems documentation.

 > <item>where an element name contains more than one token, the second
 > token, and any subsequent ones, are capitalised. Thus
 > <gi>biblStruct</gi>,<gi>listPerson</gi></item>

It may or may not be useful to note that this styling is called 
"camelCase" or "camelBack":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase

cheers
stuart






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