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   Re: [xml-dev] WXS acronym?

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>>c) Most importantly, XSD is what people are using as file extension
>>currently, so switching over to WXS at this point will only promote
>>confusion.
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>>XSD is XSD and that is that.
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>I started using XSD because that is the namespace prefix used in 
>the W3C XML Schema primer. Namespace prefixes are a place
>where you need a logical abbreviation, and this one was 
>provided courtesy of the W3C.
>
But the examples in the Structures spec [1], the "Schema for Datatype 
Definitions (normative)" [2] and the "Schema for Schemas (normative)" 
[3] uses the prefix "xs"...

Cheers,
/Eddie

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#schema
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#normative-schemaSchema






 

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