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RE: Schema Namespace name, schemaLocation, and Schema V ersi

• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...>
• Subject: RE: Schema Namespace name, schemaLocation, and Schema V ersioning
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:41:34 -0700
• Cc: "David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>,<jeni@j...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Schema Namespace name, schemaLocation, and Schema V ersioning

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@c...] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:28 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: Dare Obasanjo; David Carlisle; jeni@j...; 
> xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Schema Namespace name, schemaLocation, 
> and Schema V ersioning
> 
> This is a corner case, hard to be sure about -- the REC was 
> actually contradictory as it stood, with one clause 
> specifying one form, and another clause a conflicting form.  
> In that case, there are _no_ non-breaking fixes, at least in 
> principle, and we went with what we believed was the majority 
> of existing usage in practice -- are you aware of any 
> _deployed_ schemas using the --MM-- form?

Nope, in fact I haven't seen any schemata that use the gregorian data
types but this doesn't mean they don't exist. Also the errata is not
addressed in any of our current releases so none of our users are
affected by it, yet. 
 
> On balance I support the judgement call that this change 
> should not have resulted in a namespace change -- the REC was 
> (by accident) contradictory, we agreed what we meant, we've 
> brought the REC into line with that agreement.

Or you could have postponed this errata to W3C XML Schema 1.1 which
hopefully would involve a namespace change. 

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