By tradition the language uses uppercase keywords, such as LABEL in form files,
and the examples in this documentation reflect that convention. The language itself is not
case-sensitive. However, XML is case-sensitive, and by convention node types use
uppercase/lowercase combinations to indicate word boundaries. Therefore, the nodes and attributes
of an abstract user interface tree are handled as follows:
- Node types - the first letter of the node type is always capitalized. Subsequent letters are
lowercase, unless the type consists of multiple words joined together. In that case, the first
letter of each of the multiple words is capitalized (the camel-case convention). Examples:
Label, FormField, DateEdit,
Edit.
- Attribute names - the first letter of the name is always lowercase; subsequent letters are also
lowercase, unless the name consists of multiple words joined together. In that case, the first
letter of each subsequent word is capitalized (the Lower camel-case convention). Examples:
text, colName, width,
tabIndex
- Attribute values - the values are enclosed in quotes, and the runtime system does not convert
them.
If you reference AUI tree XML nodes or attributes in your code, you must always respect the
naming conventions.