On 5/16/07, Marc de Graauw <mdegraau@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Mark Baker: > > AFAICT, that's more or less what happens in the existing Web > > architecture. HTTP messages carrying a document also normally include > > a media type, which is essentially a name for a series of compatible > > versions (e.g. "text/html" as a shortcut for HTML 2 + 3.2 + 4.01 + 5 > > etc..). > > Yes, but the list is not explicit, so it is not possible to exclude > versions (you cannot say: do not process if your version is lower than > 4.01). That is not necessary for HTML, but for other languages (like > medication, which example I use in my XML.COM article) it often is, and > that is the mechanism I wanted to describe in my article. I think that your problem could be solved simply by minting a new media type when you break backwards compatibility. Mark.Received on Thursday, 17 May 2007 03:16:17 UTC
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