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Re: Designing Schemas for Backward and Forward Compatibility - XML Schem

• From: "Zhiwu Xie" <zxie.lists@g...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:48:25 -0500

http://www.xfront.com/backward-forward-compatibility/

I realized that the compatibility will break if people actually take advantage of the <any> in the <other> and put various elements in it, e.g.,


<Book>
    <Title>My Life and Times</Title>
    <Author>Paul McCartney</Author>
    <Date>1998</Date>
    <ISBN>1-56592-235-2</ISBN>
    <Publisher>McMillan Publishing</Publisher>

    <Other>
        <namespace1:tag1>blah</namespace1:tag1>
        <namespace2:tag2>blah blah</namespace2:tag2>
    </Other>
</Book>