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Re: Where does the term "element" come from?

• From: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:25:58 -0500

On Dec 24, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:

> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> This is a book element:
> 
>   <book>...</book>
> 
> Why "element"?

The direct answer is because the XML spec says so.

> 
> Who decided to call it element? 
> 
> When was the term first used?
> 
> There is the Periodic Table of elements. Is that where the term comes from?
> 
> In hindsight, is there a better term?

Is this idle curiosity, or do you think there's some problem with the term "element" that would be relieved by using some other term?  After all, I suppose you could ask similar questions about the things in the periodic table couldn't you?  


> 
> /Roger
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