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Re: [xml-dev] Who thought up term XML?

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Who thought up term XML?
From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 01:14:49 -0500
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On Jan 6, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Kurt Cagle wrote:

> Writing a quick history on HTML and XHTML for a book, and I'm  
> trying to track down who was the person who proposed the term XML  
> or Extensible Markup Language. Anyone know?

It was probably a member of the ERB... I don't remember who. The  
oldest public reference at the W3C is the posting by Jon Bosak:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg/1996Aug/0002

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