Schema versioning with errata

Brian Major major.brian at gmail.com
Fri May 31 20:13:16 CEST 2019


Hi Markus,

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:18 AM Markus Demleitner <
msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

>
> Here's what I've done and how I propose to go on:
>
> (a) I changed the version attribute on the root of the schema file to
>     "1.1+Erratum-1"

...

>
> Here's my reasoning:
>
> (a) is because people should be able to work out the "patchlevel" of
> the schema.  When Erratum-3 is being applied, the version would
> be 1.1+Erratum-1+Erratum-3.  Yes, that could potentially get long,
> but since not many people will have too look at it, that's probably
> acceptable.
>

Hmm, would we ever have a XSD posted that did not take into account
accepted errata?  If we did then I'd probably consider it a mistake made by
the working group.

Brian
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