Re: [xml-dev] WXS acronym?

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

Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com> writes:

> I've been seeing the acronym WXS to describe XML Schema for a long
> time on this mailing list, and I have no idea where it came from. It's
> likely to confuse people since the acronym is never used on the W3C
> site, and it simply isn't the name of a schema language.
> 
> 
> Is there a reason for not calling this language W3C XML Schema
. . .  the official name for the language . . .

For my part, stop right there, and the answer is 'yes'.

> or XSDL, the official . . . acronym for the language . . .?

Um, I believe a _long_ time ago the W3C XML Schema WG decided it would
prefer no acronym, and has accordingly never, to my knowledge, blessed
_any_ acronym, including XSDL.  That (i.e. no acronym) still gets my
vote.

ht
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