Library hierarchy, contd.
Ian Lynagh
igloo@earth.li
Thu, 24 May 2001 22:39:23 +0100
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > One other nit which I forgot about: can we capitalise Xml and Html to
> > XML & HTML to be consistent (I think we already agreed to do this).
>
> I vaguely remember agreeing the opposite - to use InitCaps throughout
> rather than ALLCAPS. Whatever.
>
> One other point - I have noticed that there is at least one other
> Haskell XML processing library (by Peter Thiemann) out there besides
> my HaXml. I don't want to claim any monopoly on the `best' or
> `standard' way of doing XML, so I'm inclined to go for `HaXml' as
> the base name of my package rather than stealing `Xml' prematurely.
>
> Hence, my vote would be for
>
> Text
> Html
> HaXml
Would
Text
Html
Xml
HaXml
the_other_one
not make more sense?
And personally I think XML and HTML should be all caps as they tend to
be elsewhere.
Ian