Re: URNs approved by Karl

[Tony Coates <Tony.Coates@reuters.com>]

On 01/05/2001 20:37:59 Norman Walsh wrote:

>Versioning is open issue #26. The namespace name is one way to do it, but
>it's fairly coarse. It means that 1.0 processors will be completely
>unable to recognize 1.1 catalog documents. I think I prefer a required
>version attribute on the catalog element. Then we can say that version 1.0
>processors are allowed to ignore elements that they don't recognize when
>processing version 1.0+delta catalogs.

At the risk of overkill, I'm inclined to require both a versioned namespace and
a version attribute on the root element.  I know it leaves scope for
inconsistent versioning, but I think that can simply be specified as an error
condition.

     Cheers,
          Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates
Leader of XML Architecture & Design
Chief Technology Office
Reuters Plc, London.
tony.coates@reuters.com
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