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Some have. Versioning threads started a few years ago.
It seems so strange to read the PSVI and XPath/XQuery
threads and see XML (posed originally to make a programmer's
job easy) becoming not only something hard for a programmer
to learn, but close to impossible for the rest of the
web community. This is progress? Someone should write a book
outlining all the easy and straightforward ways to use
ASP, JScript/Javascript, and cheap relational dbs that
enable web services and basic XML/HTML to do 99% of the
practical jobs and skip the rest:
"XML: On Time and Under Budget"
len
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From: Alaric Snell [mailto:alaric@alaric-snell.com]
That reminds me... extensibility. In the XML world, the 'extensible' really
just means 'you can define your own vocabularies'. There's no explicit
support for different versions of vocabularies to try to interact beyond what
is intrinsically provided by having tagged values that can be skipped if
unknown like in BER. ASN.1 has an explicit versioning mechanism for revisions
of schemas that allows one to control the interoperability between them,
explicitly marking the changes so processors can deal with different versions
well.
Is this a requirement XML schema languages other than ASN.1 are going to
stumble into in a few year's time and make XML-DEV writhe with curses and
debates?
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