Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: [xml-dev] Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym? [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?To: xml-dev@-----.---.--- Date: 8/26/2008 9:02:00 AM Chin Chee-Kai wrote: > Rick Jelliffe wrote: >> So I think it is futile to discern acronymicity from merely looking >> at the letters: it is how they get read that is the determining >> factor. So RADAR and LASER are definitely acronyms because we >> conventionally read them aloud as words perfectly easily. > How'bout SOAP in v1.2? It is a pronounceable acronym in v1.1 but has > been explicitly declared as a non-acronym in v1.2 (Ref: > http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/ under Section 1. Introduction's > "Note"). > SOAP passes the "nym" test (a readable word-oid) but not the "acro" test (initial letters/sounds from some longer phrase). Cheers Rick | ||||||
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