Re: Version attribute for WSDL from Mark Baker on 2004-02-13 (www-ws-desc@w3.org from February 2004)

From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:29:13 -0500
To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
Message-ID: <20040212232913.K1330@www.markbaker.ca>

+1, well said.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:32:29PM -0500, David Orchard wrote:
> I'm interested in the version attribute for identifying versions within "compatible" definitions.  I would like to have our spec say explicitly that.  I am strongly strongly opposed to using a version attribute for identifying different incompatible versions.  That's what namespaces and URIs are for.
> 
> Some off-the-cuff suggestions for the wording:
> 
> "The version attribute identifies a particular version of the definitions, that is compatible with all other versions with the same targetnamespace.  It SHOULD not be used to identify incompatible definition versions."

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