On 5/10/2021 7:10 AM, Matthäus Wander wrote:
I support the use of the namespace declaration. A report with namespace
declaration allows for automatic syntax checks with XML Schema
Validation.
Version numbers, and the like, tend to be a lot less useful than
intuition leads one to expect.
The distinction to make is 'increments' versus 'incompatibilities'.l
If an new spec merely /adds/ to a previous spec, then the presence of
the new constructs is self-declaring. The only requirement is to have
the base specification declare that unrecognized constructs are to be
ignored. So, versioning adds the illusion of utility, but really only
adds unnecessary complexity.
Incompatibilities, where new constructs conflict with previous ones,
mean that the new specification is not a new version. It is an
independent specification. It needs to be labeled accordingly.
d/
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