[dsdl-discuss] Re: First draft of Schematron spec (Schematronin one defun)

From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 08:57:50 UTC

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 10:45, Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> > * I am not sure whether it is enough to keep the same namespace
> > since you have introduced new features which will not be
> > supported by existing implementations of Schematron: "new"
> > implementations will have no problem with existing schemas, but
> > the opposite will be more problematic.
>
> There has been a version number in effect for Schematron since version 1.5.
> Schematron implementations that don't implement version checking (and I
> think none do, but it is trivial to add) are not implementing the spec, to
> some extent. Blame the victim!

Fair enough!

It would probably make sense to make it Schematron version 2.0 but I
think you should mention it (in bold red letters) in the spec, then...

Eric

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