- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:00:54 -0500
The XML 1.0 and most related specifications use the hyphenated spellings "start-tag" and "end-tag". The Web Apps 1.0 spec uses the unhyphenated forms "start tag" and "end tag". While I'm not sure there's a fundamental reason to prefer one form over the other, the copy editor in me would prefer to be consistent with the XML 1.0 spelling. This hyphenated form has also been enshrined in the O'Reilly Default Stylesheet and Word List http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html for the same reasons, and is thus the preferred form in O'Reilly books. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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