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Re: Why is the file suffix of XML Schemas .xsd and not.xsd.xml

• From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>,"xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 13:49:05 +0200

On 3.10.2019 13:07, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> It seems like that would have the advantage of showing with great clarity of type of file it is. Yes?

May be, but it's legacy. Many older operating systems supported only 3
characters as a filename extension. Although this limitation is no
longer true I personally don't see any advantage in using 3 extensions
at the same time. I know that .xsl is a text file in XML format
containing XSLT transformation. There are not that many file types in use.

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  • Why is the file suffix of XML Schemas .xsd and not .xsd.xml or evenbetter .xsd.xml.txt?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>