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>The XML specification, http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/ starts with, >Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes ... >So the spec says, it's an abbreviation ... Probably because 'acronymied' is a little bit of a cacophony, and to write 'abbreviated through the acronym' was too complex of a sentence. Technically XML is an acronym, as GNU, SQL, FAT, BBC or TARDIS are. Probably we should discuss whehter an 'acronym' is a subtype of the more general 'abbreviation' type which is at the same time disjointed from the 'contraction' subtype (e.g. Dr. for Doctor). Fede
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