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Dare (and others) - Before we commit the same grievous error, I'd like to more about the kinds of difficulties you've witnessed. Frankly, with all of the dire warnings about breakage to XSL and other namespace-aware applications, we are seriously considering following the W3C lead and fixing a generic namespace, leaving the version processing to a required/fixed version attribute. If this is risky in some major way, I'd really like to know now. Thanks, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:kpako@y...] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:11 PM To: David Carlisle Cc: jeni@j...; xml-dev@l... I hope this isn't official W3C policy because it is very poorly thought out. We at Microsoft are already having problems with the fact that RECs like W3C XML Schema add backwards incompatible changes in errata does breaking our customer's previously working schemata when they get a patch or upgrade for no fault of their own or ours. For the W3C to actually have a policy where versions of their standards never change their namespace URI would have many negative effects across the software industry where XML is used. Either applications that worked perfectly in the past would continually break as changes to the RECs were made or the W3C would have to ensure that every change they made was backwards copmpatible which is an difficult burden and one it has shown to be incapable of doing. Thus I hope and pray this is your opinion and has no bearing on any stated W3C policy on namespace URI for versioning.
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