On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 08:33 -0700, Martin Wegner wrote: > > The issue has less to do with XMLBeans and more with the XML Schema > standard itself. It is hard to do. I would suggest you start reading > here: > > > http://www.pacificspirit.com/Authoring/Compatibility/ProvidingCompatibleSchemaEvolution.html > I already had a look at this article. The problem is how to support XML schema discovery (which is the XML schema for a certain document) and doing the projection if possible with XMLBeans.
kind regards, Ruben > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ruben Verlinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 10:42:35 AM > Subject: XML Schema evolution forward and backwards compatibility > > Hello, > I am new to using XMLBeans and I wonder if somebody can provide me > with > some insights on supporting backward/forward compatibility after the > XML > Schema for a certain document type evolves using XMLBeans. > > The general idea was to have clients which only support an older > version > of the schema than the documents sent by the server to do a projection > of the XML document to their known schema. Which comes down to: Ignore > everything you know! Possibly a must not ignore could be built into > some > elements later on. > > The server should also be able to receive XML documents that follow an > older schema than the one used on the server. When receiving such a > XML > document the server should parse it an decide if it can find enough > information in the document or not. > > > Can anyone provide me some insight on how to do this using XMLBeans? > Or > if XMLBeans is even suited for this kind of task? > > > kind regards, > Ruben Verlinden > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]