Re: Second International Symposium on Invisible XML

I see the merits of both options ("markup" or "XML") and have no 
preference either way.

Bethan makes a good point in relation to "discoverability" - in that if 
the name is changed, it will be important to ensure that there is still 
explicit mention of "IXML" and "invisible XML" in promotional material 
and other related comms, to increase the odds of it reaching people 
searching for those more commonly used terms.

Sheila

On 18/08/2026 15:01, Bethan Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> I don't object to the change in principle, but currently there are a lot of people doing IXML and not a lot of people doing "invisible markup". My concern when we talked about this for the first Symposium was about whether the term "invisible markup" really means anything to people - whereas we *know* that people are talking about and working with IXML.
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> (It does also seem weird to me that someone who would be interested in markup is *not at all* interested in XML. But I have met humans, and "weird" seems to be the one thing that they all have in common.)
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>> On 18 Aug 2026, at 14:42, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote:
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>> Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
>>> Oh, hey! This XML stuff is actually pretty cool!
>> I love your optimism. Have you met humans? :-)
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>> Norm Tovey-Walsh
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