Re: XSD (was Re: The lists I monitor)

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com> writes:

> At 05:42 PM 5/7/01 -0700, Paul Cody Johnston wrote:
> >Like it or not, the name "XSD" is associated with the W3C.  Perhaps if
> >the yahoo list creator would not encroach on the namespace so closely:
> >perhaps "XSD-users" or "alt-XSD" or "XSD-open" would be better (and
> >not a bad marketing move either).  Am I wrong in that
> ><quote>XSD</quote> *is* W3c territory?
> 
> I think XSD/XSDL are considered non-acronyms by some, actually.  xsd is the 
> namespace prefix, but I don't see the W3C referring to XSD.

I certainly try to avoid using _any_ acronym for what (I agree with
Simon) speaking carefully is called the W3C XML Schema language, XML
Schema for short.

ht
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