Re: using namespaces to version

[Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>]

> I'm wondering if anyone on the list has any strong opinions about
> the use of namespaces for versioning. In particular, am I likely
> to run into any problems if I base my namespaces on the Dublin Core
> format shown below?
>
> I quite like the Dublin Core namespaces proposed in the various
> Dublin Core in XML proposals at http://dublincore.org/. These have
> the form:
>
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.0/
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
> http://purl.org/dc/qualifiers/1.1/
>
> MathML on the other hand defines one namespace and no facility for
> versioning (as far as I know). So a MathML 1.0 processor has no way
> of telling if a document with elements from the MathML namespace
> (which is http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML ) is invalid or from a
> future version of MathML (though one could argue that these are the
> same thing as far as the processor is concerned).
>
> There is a thread on this topic in the archive, although no real
> conclusion or recommendation seems to have been reached. The link is
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200008/msg00612.html . If
> anyone knows of other threads in the archive that might be relevant,
> could they bring them to my attention?

Yes.  See the thread starting at

http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200103/msg00995.html

I quite like Eric's proposal, and have put it into practice.


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