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

Proposal:

A good example of an incompatible change that used the traditional minor
version identifier change is
XML 1.1

Cheers,
Dave

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:42 PM, <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Dan Connolly writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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":
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> "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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