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   Re: [xml-dev] WXS acronym?

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Henry S. Thompson wrote:

>Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com> writes
>
>>Is there a reason for not calling this language W3C XML Schema
>>    
>>
>>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, 
>
Shades of King Canute's courtiers here, surely?

>and has accordingly never, to my knowledge, blessed
>_any_ acronym, including XSDL.  That (i.e. no acronym) still gets my
>vote.
>
In other words, if people wish to use acronyms - and they do - then they 
may as well use one chosen by those who wish to minimise the roles of 
this language. Um indeed.

Francis.

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