From: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@g...>
Subject: Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
To: "Alexander Johannesen" <alexander.johannesen@g...>
Cc: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>, xml-dev@l...
Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008, 12:08 PM

> Didn't you mean the opposite, that XML is a word made from the initial
> letters of the phrase "eXtensible Markup Language", and hence an
> acronym?

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 ...

-- 
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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