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Francis Norton <francis@r...> writes: > Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > >Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> writes > > > >>Is there a reason for not calling this language W3C XML Schema > >> 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, > > Shades of King Canute's courtiers here, surely? > > >and has accordingly never, to my knowledge, blessed > >_any_ acronym, including XSDL. That (i.e. no acronym) still gets my > >vote. > > > In other words, if people wish to use acronyms - and they do - then > they may as well use one chosen by those who wish to minimise the > roles of this language. Um indeed. Actually, I think it's possible, and in cases of semantically dense terminological spaces such as XML schema languages, preferrable, to avoid acronyms altogether. I don't find it difficult at all to always just type "W3C XML Schema", and I have done so, and will continue to do so, not only for accuracy, but also as a courtesy to the newcomers and casual readers of this list. 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. 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. I realise I'm in the minority, I just thought I'd clarify why I prefer not to encourage the use of _any_ acronym for referring to the W3C XML Schema design/language/effort. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2002, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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