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Decision: Naming Convention

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Submitted By Mr. Seraphim Larsen on 2005-09-20 11:35 pm UTC

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OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC / DITA Specification 1.1 Requirements

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2005-10-12 11:42 pm UTC

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Description

- naming convention (conclusion of camelCase discussion)
- Summary of proposal (E Hennum):
- Existing names stay as they are
- Future names all lower case for now
- Use hyphens as separators between words in new names

- Comments on proposal (E Hennum, Paul Prescod):
- Specializers may use another convention (such as
camelCase)
- Currently, DITA can’t move to camelCase because it would
be a major change
- In the future, DITA may move to camelCase in order to be
consistent with industry practices as summarized by Robin
Cover

- Proposal on naming convention accepted by acclamation.