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Webb Roberts wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Chuck Bearden <cbearden@r...> wrote: >> [...] >> The decision was made (a) to add a version attribute to the root element, >> and (b) not to change the namespace URI (which was already unversioned). >> Did the maintainers of EgXML make the right choice? > > What happens when a message needs to be constructed, exchanged, and > validated, which contains content defined by both v1 and v2? A > majority of schema-validating XML parsers support only a single schema > for a given namespace on a particular validation pass. > > What happens when a message is constructed that only uses content from > v1 or v2, without using the designated root element? How does the > receiver determine the appropriate schema when the version is not > explicitly referenced? In the case I described, the instances are all documents, and little or no exchange happens outside the repository/CMS system. Within the repository, it is a hard constraint that an instance conforms either to v1 or v2. A document that isn't valid against v2 cannot be published in the repository. I forgot to mention that EgXML permits the use of MathML in certain content models, but I'm not sure how much bearing that has on the version question. Chuck -- Chuck Bearden (cbearden@r... ; 713.348.3661) http://cnx.org/
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