RE: XSD versioning ...

Thank you all for the information.  I'll have to think about it.

> From: petexmldev@codalogic.com> To: dragon-fly999@hotmail.com; xmlschema-dev@w3.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:23:12 +0100> Subject: Re: XSD versioning ...> > > You can design your XSD schema so that it accommodates versioning. This is > mainly done using xs:any, but, especially in XSD 1.0, there are gotchas > involved in this. There's a good article on this at:> > http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/27/extend.html> > The story for XSD 1.1 should hopefully be a lot better.> > One thing such versioning strategies miss is the ability to declare that > certain version 2 concepts are required to be understood by a parser, > otherwise the message should be rejected in some way. This procedure has to > be defined when version 1 is specified. The method I like best is using an > attribute called something like "Requires" in the top level element which > contains a number of tokens that the receiving parser must understand in > order to fully understand the message. This to me keeps all the > compatibility assessment in one place and allows for an easy go/no go > decision quite early.> > Just as an example, it might look like:> > <MySchema Requires="foo bar">...> > That's said, your versioning strategy does depend on things like whether you > have one way or two way communication, or there's an archival aspect to it > etc.> > HTH,> > Pete Cordell> Codalogic> For XML C++ data binding visit http://www.codalogic.com/lmx/> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dragon Fly" <dragon-fly999@hotmail.com>> To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:24 PM> Subject: XSD versioning ...> > > What is the best way to handle XSD versioning? Let's say I have the > following scenario ...> > - Version 1 of the XSD is given to a customer.> - The customer writes a parsing program (that performs validation against > V1).> > 3 months later ...> > - A new element is added to version 2 of the XSD.> - The new XML files sent to the customer have the new element.> - The new XML files fail validations because version 1 of the XSD does not > have the new element.> > Is there anything that I can do to plan for this? Thank you.> > _________________________________________________________________> It’s a talkathon – but it’s not just talk.> http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_JustTalk > > > 
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