[Comments On] An XML Wish List

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Some interesting wishes are exposed in the article "An XML Wih List" (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.devx.com/free/hotlinks/2001/ednote010101.asp">http://www.devx.com/free/hotlinks/2001/ednote010101.asp</a><!-- m -->)that could simplify XML developers' life.Concerning the case sensitivity of XML, I prefer it to be maintained : it'sa good way to force developers to use the same case convention, and it'sfacilitate reading. For example, I find it easier to read MyHardToRememberCaseSensitiveNamethan myhardtoreadelementname, so I make an effort to always wright elementsand attributes names like this. But the author is certainly right that mostdevelopers don't make this effort ! But with Intellisense in XML editors,this will be easier to respect case sensitivity...Concerning XSLT, it could be useful to automatically generate templates toretrieve specific nodes designed in the XML source document. But as I considerXSLT as a complete development language, I think that developers will alwayshave to write some peace of code manually for non intuitive treatments.Finally I expect to document my XML and XSLT documents in a standard way.Actually, I expect the W3C to define an XML vocabulary and a specific namespacefor documentation integrated within XML documents. This vocabulary couldexplain the meanings of each elements, attributes, templates... Explainationwould be explicit for developers, maintainers, users, like it is with javadoc.But I'd rather use a specific namespace for the documentation, in order tointroduce it within the XML document, and produce documentation with appropriateXSLT stylesheet, rather than using comments writen in a special format (likethis used in Java) and a specific doclet.Micha雔 TartarInfrastructure and Object TechnologyEuriware