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Bryan Rasmussen wrote: > > basically I figure it's theoretical, in java which has a lot of databinding > tools a hyphen is not a proper character in an identifier. I would hope that a > databinding tool would have taken this into account and made a workaround (I > seem to remember that Castor handles it) But maybe that is me being optimistic > and anyway the requirements of naming standards are often based on what > theoretical problems. > > consider the even worse scenario of element names with . in them. Not only > possible databinding headaches, but I suppose css headaches as well if someone > wanted to style the xml via that technology. > > XMI must be a headache for someone. > It is somewhat a pain when using XSL (v1.0, as that is what I know) to transform configuration XML out to Java and JavaScript. It requires string manipulation to convert to valid variable names. I don't have problems with underscores. Dashes in element names look more attractive to me, however. best, -Rob
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