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Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?

• From: "Crawford, Mark" <mark.crawford@s...>
• To: <costello@m...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:41:10 -0400

>I often use "XML" in XHTML documents. I want to mark it up in the most
correct, semantic-rich way.  

For correct, then obviously whatever the spec itself states.

For semantically rich, avoid all uses of both acronyms and abbreviations as there is NEVER a guarantee of uniqueness.  If you insist, pick a dictionary (most consider the full version of the OED to be the most authoritative) and use its definition consistently. Everything else will just be opinions.

Mark Crawford
Standards Architect
GEPG Standards Management and Strategy
SAP Labs 
Mobile: (703) 485-5232

----- Original Message -----
From: Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...>
To: xml-dev@l... <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Sun Aug 24 18:33:27 2008
Subject: RE:  Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?

Hi Mark,

> What is the basis for the question? 

I often use "XML" in XHTML documents. I want to mark it up in the most
correct, semantic-rich way.  

Thus, I would like to know whether "XML" is an abbreviation or an
acronym, and whether it is more accurate to mark it up like this:

    <abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr>
 
 or like this:
 
    <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>

/Roger

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