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

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  • To: "Kurt Cagle" <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>, "XML-DEV" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
  • Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Who thought up term XML?
  • From: "Xu Han-a21787" <hanxu@motorola.com>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:27:41 +0800
  • Thread-index: AcYTO4+wFJK7Zf3PSYy23H8jrSo9tgBkNy3w
  • Thread-topic: [xml-dev] Who thought up term XML?

According to Tim Bray's Annotated XML[1] , Jon Bosak invented the term XML.
 
Hope helps.
 
 
 
Han

 

From: Kurt Cagle [mailto:kurt.cagle@gmail.com]
Sent: 2006Äê1ÔÂ7ÈÕ 11:34
To: XML-DEV
Subject: [xml-dev] Who thought up term XML?

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?

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Kurt Cagle
http://www.understandingxml.com



 

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