2.5. Conventions used

As you may have noticed, we used two different suffixes for the files with XJBC content: "xjbc" and "xml" in the previous sections.

This was to show two different ways of naming the XJBC files, which are of course XML in syntax and definitions of Java classes in semantics. You may choose both suffixes, if you like, or invent a third or fourth. But filenames and its suffixes are only weak hints to its contents, and making filenames more meaningful eases life. As a counter example take a file named x.xml. From this name you may only conclude that it contains probably XML - only syntax, no semantics.

Therefore we take DocBook ("*.docbook") and XSLT ("*.xsl") as examples, and name files containing XJBC content, i.e. a Java class represented as XML, with the suffix "*.xjbc", as a reasonable naming-convention.