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Re: "Natural XML"

From: <John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 18:28:33 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199702092328.SAA08939@ursula.stg.brown.edu>
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
How about "Folk XML" instead?  "Natural XML" suggests that the real
thing is also somehow unnatural.  "Folk XML", on the other hand, makes
the man-in-the-street version sound OK but untutored, without the
unmistakable air of refinement that surrounds real XML.

John Lavagnino
Women Writers Project, Brown University
Received on Sunday, 9 February 1997 18:27:59 EST

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