- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:54:01 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > 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". The XML form seems grammatically incorrect. "tag" is a noun, "start" and "end" here are acting as adjectives. The correct English grammar form for this two-word term would use a space, not a hyphen. (The term "two-word" in the previous sentence is grammatically correct because it is taking an adjective and a noun and turning it into a single adjective in front of another noun.) Anyway, again, this is a very minor detail, which is probably left for when the spec is stable enough that we're not at risk of dropping entire sections. No need to worry about wording when the words themselves might not survive. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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