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Subject: [relax-ng] Fw: [xml-dev] Do Names Matter?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Gertner" <matthew.gertner@schemantix.com> To: "'John Cowan'" <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: [xml-dev] Do Names Matter? > John Cowan wrote: > > BTW, it is RELAX NG, as if the "I" had dropped off the marquee. The > letter > > still pronounced, though. (Personally, I wanted it to be called "RELEX".) > > It's probably time that someone pointed out that how unfortunate the name > RELAX NG is. I say this with regret, because I would consider this to be a > potential hindrance to broader acceptance, and XSD certainly needs the > competition. While this wasn't raised in the long thread about what makes a > successful technology, names do matter, IMO. > > <tongue in="cheek">Consider the Mac, which is a clear exception to the 80/20 > rule (being the product of a perfectionist design team), but still > mattered/matters in any number of tangible ways, doubtless due to its cool > name.</tongue> > > The name "RELAX NG" is unwieldy and almost universally mispronounced by the > uninitiated. And in my purely subjective opinion, "RELAXING" isn't such a > hot name for a schema language even when spelled normally. Has anyone > seriously tried to influence this? Like many others, I'd love to see RELAX > NG succeed, and in all seriousness I do believe that names matter. Besides, > choosing a new name would be the perfect excuse to launch a big PR > campaign... > > Matt > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > > >
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