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   Re: [xml-dev] WXS acronym?

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Henry S. Thompson wrote:

>I also note that we're doing fine
>without acronyms for Web Services, Semantic Web, XLink, XML Base, XML
>Signature, XPath, XML Infoset, to rattle off the first few I thought
>of.
>
One major difference is that none of the above has an associated file 
suffix. And where they do have common namespace prefixes, those *are* 
commonly undewrstood as referencing the technology in question.

>I just think the acronym space is too heavily populated for it to be
>much use outside of very focussed groups to use lots of acronyms.
>
That's a fair point in general, but I don't think it applies once you've 
already associated acronyms to a language via file suffixes and 
namespace prefixes.

Francis.

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