RE: How to Version XML Applications

Ooh, ooh.  Now that's a fun topic.  Issue: "Should a mechanism other than
namespaces be used for version differentiation?".  FWIW, the area of version
control is of keen interest in the web services community.

Cheers,
dave

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> [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> Tim Bray
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:45 AM
> To: xsl-editors@w3.org
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> Subject: Re: How to Version XML Applications
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>
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> > I doubt that there's "one true solution" to this problem, so I'm not
> > inclined to encourage the TAG to get involved.
>
> What Norm said.  When people say "versioning", they mean all sorts of
> different things, many of them violently mutually incompatible.
> Different WGs are going to have really different versioning
> requirements.
>
> I also am generally dubious about using namespaces to version, to the
> extent that it might be worth considering an architectural principle
> that this is a bad idea.  -Tim
>
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Received on Wednesday, 11 September 2002 22:44:44 UTC