- From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:05:53 +0000
- To: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- CC: John Boyer <JBoyer@PureEdge.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Robin Berjon wrote: > > John Boyer wrote: > >> And why would this stop the processors in a particular >> domain from attempting to process documents of a higher >> version (albeit with reduced or erroneous functionality)? > > > If the namespace URI changes, the processor doesn't know that it's > dealing with a different version of the same language — how could it, > the names of all the elements have changed? > > The only way to achieve what you describe would be to build processors > with knowledge of structuration within the namespace URI it, eg. > http://foo.org/myLang/v6 such that it can recognize that > http://foo.org/myLang/v7 is the next version of the same language. But I > don't think that's a reasonable assumption, and it breaks the way in > which many, many XML tools are used. Not the only way. I believe this can also be done by defining relationships within RDF/OWL. But that's a whole new toolset. cheers Bill
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