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

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