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   RE: XML Schemas: the wrong name

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  • From: Don Park <donpark@docuverse.com>
  • To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, xml-dev@xml.org
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:25:15 -0700

> I do not know what the W3C's XML schema language should be called. 
> XSchema is one name I've seen bantered around, and that seems OK as 
> long as it expands to "AN XML Schema Language" rather than "THE XML 
> Schema Language". But it should not be called simply "XML Schema". 

I agree with Elliotte on this issue.  Thanks to oversupply of hype,
'XML' is arguably a common word and so is "Schema".

My suggest is to either add a hyphen (i.e. XML-Schema) or call it XSD.

Best,

Don Park
Docuverse




 

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