"name-value pair" vs "key-value pair"

Subject: "name-value pair" vs "key-value pair"
From: "Haas, Guy" <ghaas -at- selectica -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:20:16 -0700

I document a product that deals in a lot of what I would call "name-value
pairs"
(or "name/value pairs"). Recently, some of our engineers added some new
features and discussed the same entities in terms of "key-value pairs".

A web search turned up over 9000 instances of "name-value pair" to over 8700
"key-value pair" citations.

I have seen "name/value" used in the W3 standards.

If you use this in your TECHWR tasks, which form do you use and why?

--Guy K. Haas ghaas -at- selectica -dot- com or gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley

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