[Bug 25290] [Custom]: Ban uppercase and leading "xml" in custom element names?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25290

--- Comment #6 from Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> ---
(In reply to Robin Berjon from comment #5)
> I'm happy to contact them if you think it helps.

Yes please.

> Well, I won't dispute that it's tough to get hard data on this, especially
> since search engines drop the "<" and web corpora don't have much content.
> Here's my experience for this: I spent a solid decade on XML support lists
> and four years on a job that exposed me to schemata written by a wide
> variety of other people which I had to make work with a tool I was
> developing. I saw such elements regularly. The classic is an extension point
> called a variation on <xmlContainer>. Books also had examples like that.

OK. If so, more reason for XML Core to drop the reservation.

> I understand the reasoning, but it actually cuts both ways: if XML Core were
> to produce an element that contained a dash I think the feedback should be
> "don't do that".

Indeed.

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Received on Thursday, 17 April 2014 10:09:17 UTC