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   Re: [xml-dev] WXS acronym?

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At 12:58 PM 8/16/2002 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>Jonathan Robie wrote:
> > I was simply making the point that if I change the name of whatever I
> > am referring to, it is confusing. The name of Simon St. Laurent is
> > Simon St. Laurent, not Fred Flintstone. As a former member of the W3C
> > XML Schema Working Group, I had no idea what WXS meant the first time
> > I encountered it, and if I refer to you as Fred Flintstone, nobody
> > will know who I am talking about.
>
>But if you refer to me as "O'Reilly Simon St.Laurent" or as
>"simonstl.com Simon St.Laurent", people will more than likely get it,
>and the odds of anyone taking offense are much slighter.

Or perhaps ORSTL would be a more apt comparison.

Jonathan





 

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