1/19/2004: [Fwd: BPSS Schema Versioning]

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Per TC call request today, here is the original email received from 
Michael Wang on versioning.

On ebBP TC web site, see Work Item List, 19 January 2004 under Documents 
under Work Item List: Work Item 7.

Thanks.

Michael Wang wrote:

> Hi Dale, Monica,
>
> I am not sure if this is already on the list of things to do for
> BPSS but I thought it is necessary to be addressed sometime
> before the next version comes out.
>
> There are a lot of vendors supporting BPSS 1.05 schemas as of today.
> There are probabaly a few that also supports 1.01.  There will likely
> be newer versions as well.  It would be great for the namespces of
> these schemas to be qualified with a version or a date so that
> implementation can use the right schema to do proper validation.
>
> For example, 1.01 RecipetAck was defined using RosettaNet's DTD and
> there was no namespace defined.  But 1.05 used XSD and with a namespace.
> If I remember this right 1.04 also used XSD and a namespace but I
> THINK, could be wrong, that the namespace between 104 and 105 are the
> same but the defintions are different.  This will certainly cause
> implementation issues.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Regards.
> -mw
>
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