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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