The XML Acronym Demystifier

 

Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > Frustrated with the tantalizing amount of TLA and FLA within the XML and
> > Web Services Acronym Soup (XAS ;-) we started an open-source XML-based
> > project named the "XML Acronym Demystifier" [1].
> >
> > We decided to collect XML and Web Service related acronyms and
> > abbreviations together with their explanation and short introductory
> > texts stating that the thing identified by the acronym is all about.
> > Additionally, every acronym is accompanied with at least a link to more
> > information or directly to the originating spec if possible.
> >
> > The project is strongly based on XML technology since the data source
> > holding the acronyms and their explanations is a XML file. Furthermore,
> > also the search engine available at [1] is purely XML-based since it is
> > implemented as a XSLT transformation which is parametrized by the values
> > supplied by the Web form.
> > All sources (the XML source, all the transformations) are available
> > online, as well as results suitable to be used inside the Babylon
> > translater or a representation as Topic Map (RDF will shortly follow).
> >
> > We invite all readers of XML-DEV to use the service and also to
> > contribute to the project.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Mario