In its present form, I want to get rid of the version attribute. That's not to say that I don't want something with more useful semantics, on a separate axis from the namespace.
So, +1 to the Pace.
On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Norman Walsh wrote:
Some thoughts
- It seems very likely to me that Atom will evolve over time.
- For some applications, changing the namespace name with every version is entirely impractical. Atom may or may not be in this category. Do feeds become legacy? Are people storing entries with the expectation that the readers of 2014 will be able to display them, albeit perhaps imperfectly? Changing the namespace makes that *hard*. XSLT transformations and XML Queries for Namespace1 flatly will not work with Namespace2.
- When I look at a feed, I am comforted on some emotional level by my ability to know what version the creator intended it to be.
- Perhaps YAGNI applies.
I think, on balance, I'm +1 for keeping it, but I doubt I'd lie down in the road over it.
Be seeing you, norm
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