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Re: xsd versioning

• From: Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@c...>
• To: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@b...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:06:24 -0400

"C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@b...> wrote on 03/24/2009 12:07:46 PM:

<snip/>

> I have the impression that some implementations may allow the user
> to specify different behaviors by using the URIs specified at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#langids -- but I don't know
> that for a fact, and I expect that in any such case the documentation
> will say explicitly which URIs are understood and users will
> treat them as complicated magic incantations which must be gotten
> right, on penalty of error messages.  (In this regard, there is
> indeed a strong similarity to namespace names.)

In fact we've already started recognizing / supporting a couple of these URIs [1][2] in Xerces-J (future version under development) to allow users to select between XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 behaviour.

Thanks.

[1] http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.0
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.1

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@c...
E-mail: mrglavas@a...

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  • Re: xsd versioning
    • From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@b...>