Namespace versioning

["CRAWFORD, Mark" <MCRAWFORD@lmi.org>]

Title: LMI Research Institute Stationery

Greetings,

 

A while back I raised the issue of eliminating the minor versioning of namespaces.  More specifically, I propose changing NMS 2 as well as differentiation VER 1 through VER 4 for the namespace <document ID> to use <name>-<major> and for the schema location <documentID> to use <name>-<major >.<non-zero>[.<revision>]. 

 

The reasoning for this change is that the types of changes we are allowing do not result in any collision of qualified names for our elements or attributes, hence versioning of the prefix part of the element name is unnecessary.

 

Further, unnecessary minor versioning causes problems for those folks who may want to use fully qualified element and attribute names in code.  I know we talked about this issue during last weeks F2F, but I don't think we ever reached resolution. 

 

Mark
Mark R. Crawford

Senior Research Fellow - LMI XML Lead
W3C Advisory Committee, OASIS, Representative
Vice Chair - OASIS UBL TC, UN/CEFACT Applied Technologies Group 
Chair - UN/CEFACT XML Syntax Working Group
Editor - UN/CEFACT Core Components

 

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