Re: [xml-dev] Schema Namespace name, schemaLocation, and Schema V ersioning

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Rick Jelliffe <>
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2002-07-20T05:17:02Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Schema Namespace name, schemaLocation, and Schema V ersioning
From: "David Carlisle" <>
 > > Or you could have postponed this errata to W3C XML Schema 1.1 which
> > hopefully would involve a namespace change. 
> 
> It may or may not have a change but why do you _hope_ for that.
> That's saying that if XML schema has any kind of revision, then the name
> of every schema construct should change.
> 
> Do you also hope that if there is an XML 1.1 that
> 
> <!ELEMENT and <!ATTLIST no longer work and XML 1.1 has different names
> for these constructs?
> 
> I see no difference between changing the namespace for W3C schema and
> saying that in XML 1.1 the syntax is now
> <!ELEMENT.1.1 or something.

But since it seems that most (all?) major XML processors will not accept 
documents labelled as XML 1.1, isn't the effect pretty similar to  renaming 
<!ELEMENT.

Cheers
Rick