RE: Versioning of XML Schema and namespaces

> 
> That's my reason for using the namespace with a version.
> 
> I understand all the stated reasons for not doing this, but 
> out of the box 
> there is nothing else that will consistently and 
> automatically trip up 
> validation if I don't have the "right" file being used to validate my 
> documents.

You might make it easier for the recipient to do validation by including a
version in the namespace, but you are making it hideously difficult for the
recipient to process the incoming documents using namespace-aware tools such
as XSLT and XQuery - as anyone who has tried to write code that handles the
different flavours of RSS can tell you.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

Received on Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:59:53 UTC