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Subject: Re: [security-services] Wondering what consitutes a "compatible"schema change


My intent, anyway, was to ensure that old instances can validate against 
the new schema (syntax), and that application behavior with respect to 
old instances doesn't change (semantics).  I think this amounts to your 
(a) and (c).

	Eve

Scott Cantor wrote:
> I was just wondering what the precise definition was for deciding whether a change to the schema for 1.1 is "compatible" or not. In
> particular, is the basis:
> 
> a) whether an old instance validates against the changed schema?
> 
> b) whether a new instance would validate against the older schema?
> 
> c) whether an implementation using the older schema would need to change if it began validating according to the new schema but
> applying assumptions and rules based on the old one?
> 
> To bring up a high priority example, can we add an optional ID attribute to Assertion, Request, and Response to fix the signing
> issues? Does the fact that such an instance would fail to validate against the original 1.0 schema matter, given that the new schema
> could be placed into the older implementation and pretty much nothing would break?
> 
> OTOH, if one derived a type from the old schema type and added such an attribute with the same name, it would break that
> implementation, so I'm guessing the answer is no, but I'm just trying to clarify it.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
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