Re: [xml-dev] Rethinking namespaces,attribute remapping (was Re:[xml-dev] TAG on HLink)

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

I wrote
> 
> This is just the kind of uncontrolled madness that led to DLL Hell.  Once
> finalized, I suggest that a given Web Service specification should remain
> unchanged, like an RFC, as befits a contract (the name its proponents so
> often give it).  If changes in the signature or behavior should become
> necessary, then change the name and maintain the older version until most
> users have migrated to the new ones.   Anything else is in responsible.
> 

Of course, that last should have read "irresponsible".

Tom P