RE: Request for new TAG issue: Adding terms to a namespace

• From: <paul.downey@bt.com>
• Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:39:35 -0000
• To: <robin.berjon@expway.fr>, <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
• Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>, <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <2B7789AAED12954AAD214AEAC13ACCEF2709DFE3@i2km02-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net>

Robin wrote:

> Rules describing when one should change the namespace when a language 
> is evolved and what one should not do while keeping the same namespace 
> would IMHO be extremely valuable to all those that define XML languages.

both inside and outside the W3C.
 
> Seeing as apparently several W3C WGs have adopted different approaches 
> to this issue precisely in the versioning situation (XForms 1.1 
> introduces a new namespace, all version of SVG keep the initial one), 
> having the TAG tie the two issues and provide food for consistency would 
> certainly be welcome.

oh, an extended +1 to that!

Paul

Received on Thursday, 10 February 2005 09:38:31 UTC