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Re: WXS acronym?

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: WXS acronym?
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: 16 Aug 2002 17:48:27 +0100
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Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> writes:

> At 05:17 PM 8/16/2002 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> >Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> writes:
> >
> > > Is there a reason for not calling this language W3C XML Schema
> >. . .  the official name for the language . . .
> >
> >For my part, stop right there, and the answer is 'yes'.
> 
> I think your 'yes' means that we should call the language by its name,
> not that there is a reason for not doing so, right?

Correct -- call the language by its full name.

> > > or XSDL, the official . . . acronym for the language . . .?
> >
> >Um, I believe a _long_ time ago the W3C XML Schema WG decided it would
> >prefer no acronym, and has accordingly never, to my knowledge, blessed
> >_any_ acronym, including XSDL.  That (i.e. no acronym) still gets my
> >vote.
> 
> XML Schema should probably remove references to XSDL from the W3C web
> site, then. Do a google search for XSDL and you will see that the
> Formal Description uses XSDL throughout, 

Before Formal Description goes to another edition I
for one will try to get that changed, I thought at the time it was
more important to publish than get it right.

> and there are references to XSDL on other pages maintained by the
> Working Group.

It occurs only once in pages I control, and that in prose quoted from
a contributor.  Please send me details privately, and I'll make
corrections if I think they're in order.

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