Re: Acronyms and abbreviations revisited

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Daniel Dardailler wrote:

> True, but one could argue that it is a perfect application for XML,
> where you could define a more semantically richer set of tags, using a
> small DTD with things like <ABBREV> and <EXPAN>.
> 
> Anyway, I'll bring it up in the HTML forum.
> 
Since XML syntax is reasonably stable, this solution would indeed be
suitable even in the short term, provided that W3C is planning to create,
or at least register, a certain number of official DTD's for use in
specialised applications.

Received on Thursday, 17 July 1997 20:52:05 UTC