At 9:48 PM +0100 11/18/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
If future changes can be made in a backward-compatible fashion, they will go into a spec that recycles the same namespace. Existing implementations can just ignore the differences.If they cannot, they will go into a spec which revs the namespace, because trying to process documents conforming to the new spec with existing implementations can't work.
Exactly right.
This is another reason why Atom does not have a version attribute.
+1