Re: Updated compatible versioning strategies document (section 5 Forwards Compatible ACTION-107)

Dan Connolly writes:

> I'm reasonably happy to see the XML 1.1 story incorporated.
> Noah raises some interesting points about the historical details,
> but I doubt that treating them fully is worth the screenspace
> it would take.

I think I agree on that, though if there were an easy way it would be 
interesting.  At the risk of repeating my self, let me re-emphasize that 
my actual point was only indirectly about XML 1.0;  it was specifically 
the claim in the following that the change had been "identified as minor":

"A good example of an incompatible changed identified as a minor change is 
XML 1.1"

I'm trying to make the case that there's nothing in any of the pertinent 
XML Recommendations that claims that the change in question is "minor".  I 
suggest we correct that misstatement, regardless of whether or not it's 
worth telling in detail the story of how XML 1.0 changed between Editions 
2 & 3, or whether we want to say any more than the drafts already say 
about XML 1.1.

Noah

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