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> From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@h...] > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:00 PM > To: Julian Reschke; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: namespace reprise > > > Julian Reschke wrote: > > >>From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@h...] > >> > >> > >>That's exactly the option I'm after: a one to one relationship between a > >>namespace and a schema, and a one to many relationship between a > >> > >> > > > >There isn't on in the general case. Consider XHTML. > > > > Where did that came from? XHTML uses doctypes/DTDs and even XHTML m12n > in schema does not even come close to what we are talking about. Old discussion from when XHTML 1.0 came out. It has a single namespace name, but multiple schemata. > >Changing the namespace name means that no existing code will > process these > >documents, as it would be testing for the old namespace. > > > > Nor should existing code process the new namespaced document. However Well then it's simply an incompatible change. I guess that's many people would prefer to avoid. > you haven't answered my question on how will processing of *old* > documents break. Well, your new code will have to explicitly support both namespaces. In XSLT, that's a nightmare.
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