• To: "'Jeff Lowery'" <jlowery@s...>,"'Matthew Gertner'" <matthew.gertner@s...>
• Subject: RE: Do Names Matter?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:04:39 -0000
• Cc: "'Xml-Dev \(E-mail\)'" <xml-dev@l...>
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• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> > The name "RELAX NG" is unwieldy and almost universally
> > mispronounced by the
> > uninitiated. And in my purely subjective opinion, "RELAXING"
> > isn't such a
> > hot name for a schema language even when spelled normally.
>
> I suppose you're going to be hammering on REST next?  Of
> course, if JC gets
> hold of it the name will become REST NG.
>
> Oooh! Combine the two and you get: R & R.
>
Which reminds me of the firm of Estate Agents (=US Realtors) called
Doolittle and Dally; though sadly I can only find anecdotal evidence of
their existence on the web, so I fear they are no longer in business.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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