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Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, December 14, 2003, 18:43
Tim May scripsit:

> I'm aware of the origin of the term relexification,
When two computer languages (used for representing XML schemas, though not knowing what those are doesn't matter here) named RELAX and TREX, both acronyms, were to be merged, I pushed for RELEX as the name of choice. In the end, the new language owed more to TREX than to RELAX syntactically, so it ended up being called RELAX NG (either "relax-en-gee" or "relaxing", as you will), as a sort of gesture toward fairness. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_