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  • From: Thomas Passin <list1@t...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:02:54 -0500

On 1/21/2015 5:02 AM, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
Use whatever words wont confuse the audience. For the 1980s/1990s
sgml crowd "format" and "encoding" had other specific meanings, so
were avoided. The useful term that filled the gap was "notation."
I usually mean "if you look at the data, you will see XML". I usually say either "in XML" or, since I didn't grow up with SGML terminology, "in XML format".

TomP



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