• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Pete Cordell'" <petexmldev@c...>,"'Paul Spencer'" <xml-dev-list@b...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:18:40 +0100

> I concur with Michael's observation, but I don't think a 
> version attribute alone is sufficient for good versioning.  

It's not enough on its own, but it gets you a long way, provided of course
that the value of the attribute is not just an opaque string but a pointer
to a set of rules that define the contract between sender and recipient
associated with that version.

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

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