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Re: XML Zebra, a path-based tool for generating difffingerprin

• From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
• To: abcoates@londata.com
• Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:29:09 +0200

Hi Anthony,

Anthony B. Coates (XML-Dev) <abcoatesecure-xmldev@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Also, the path-based approach ignores restructurings that don't impact 
> users, like renaming of Schema types or moving of definitions to a 
> different Schema file.

Renaming of types in XML Schema can affect users if the vocabulary
uses xsi:type-style polymorphism. In this case schema type names 
end up in XML documents.

Boris

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