Re: [xml-dev] Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2008-08-24 08:13 -0400, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
>
>In an XHTML document, should "XML" be marked up like this:
>
>    <abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr>
>
>or like this:
>
>    <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>

I always understood the rule that an acronym is an abbreviation that 
can be sounded out as if it were a word ... so I would call this an 
abbreviation.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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