Re: How to Version XML Applications

/ noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com was heard to say:
| Norm Walsh writes:
|
|> For XML-based
|> [quoting Tim Bray...NRM]
|> | languages, designers in general SHOULD NOT embed versioning
|> | information in namespace names."  -Tim
|
|> Sounds like good practice to me :-)

[... lots of intelligent, thoughtful commentary elided ...]

| So my suggestion is:  either decide that this is the time to choose a 
| group to think seriously though at least some of the versioning issues, or 
| skip the advice on namespaces, at least for now.  Many thanks.

I added the smiley because I didn't think it was really something that
we'd reach any sort of consensus on for the reasons you outlined. It's
too big and perilous a swamp to wade into casually.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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XML Standards Architect | Blind to the world of Fact without; / 'Silly
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                        | world of Purpose within.--W. H. Auden

Received on Friday, 13 September 2002 15:26:00 UTC