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Re: WXS acronym?

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• Subject: Re: WXS acronym?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:58:21 -0400
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020816125116.02f74e70@n...>

Jonathan Robie wrote:
> I was simply making the point that if I change the name of whatever I
> am referring to, it is confusing. The name of Simon St. Laurent is
> Simon St. Laurent, not Fred Flintstone. As a former member of the W3C
> XML Schema Working Group, I had no idea what WXS meant the first time
> I encountered it, and if I refer to you as Fred Flintstone, nobody
> will know who I am talking about.

But if you refer to me as "O'Reilly Simon St.Laurent" or as
"simonstl.com Simon St.Laurent", people will more than likely get it,
and the odds of anyone taking offense are much slighter.
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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