The <acronym> tag

The <acronym> tag should not be used, because it is being deprecated in XHTML version 2.

Acronyms should be enclosed by the XHTML <abbr> tag instead. They should also be disambiguated. The easiest way to do this is simply find the term for the meaning of the acronym in the acronym directory, then click on the "usage" link for that term and copy-and-paste the code provided.

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