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CIF : Coding Standards : File Names and Locations
CIF modules are designed to be plug and play with one another. Achieving this interoperability requires some forethought regarding how pages are organized and referenced relative to one another.
- All file names should be restricted to lower case letters and numbers in the ISO Latin-1 character set, which is the international default character set for web use. If the module is being designed in a language which cannot be represented in the ISO Latin-1 character set the internal content of the page may use a variant character set, but the page name itself must use Latin-1 because the page names are used by higher-level indexing systems which typically expect Latin-1 as input.
- All pages within a multi-page CIF module should reside within the same subdirectory, which should have a meaningful name suggesting the content of the CIF module. For example, if there is a three-page CIF module on the subject of roses, all the CIF pages may reside within a subdirectory called roses and the page names could be roses01.html, roses02.html, and roses03.html. This practice facilitates distribution of CIF modules to multiple locations and makes it easier to associate Lex logic modules with specific CIF content modules.
- File names should be a maximum of eight characters with no embedded blanks.
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