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Subject:Re: XML What it is and What it does From:Robert Heath <rddheath -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:51:59 -0800
I may be jumping in here a little late on this, but XML actualy stands
for "Extensible Markup Langauge" not "Extended Markup Language."
The point is not a small one because the language allows one authoring
in XML to define his or her own tags, the reason for calling it
"extensible." "Extended" implies that the language has already been
extended from an earlier form, and that the user simply has to use it
without being able to create it.
Thanks, though, for addressing an issue which is bound to become more
important for those of us in the tech writing field.
Robert Heath
rddheath -at- yahoo -dot- com
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