Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] Vote on the fate of the version attribute

[Matthew C. <mat...@va...>]

I can't make the call this morning either unfortunately. What I've tried 
to impress is that whatever option we choose, the version attribute or 
the schemaLocation, it can only be a hint, because before you know what 
schema to use there is no concept of attributes being required. Thus, 
whatever option we choose, it would be something that needs to be 
documented in the specification doc. So my recommendation is to not 
remove the version attribute in 1.1.1 but to document that it is 
meaningless and the schemaLocation hint should be present with the 
specified xsd filename. The alternative - forcing the version attribute 
to be a specific version (and presumably documenting that the 
schemaLocation is meaningless?) - seems unnecessarily un-xml-ish.

Thanks,
Matt


Darren Kessner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just realized that I can't make the meeting this morning.
>
> Regarding the version attribute, I still agree with Matt that having
> an extra version attribute is redundant, and therefore unnecessary.
>
> It's not difficult to implement, of course, but I just don't see the
> point -- implementors will either:
> 1) ignore the field, or
> 2) read it, and verify that it matches the name of the xsd filename,
> reporting error if there is a mismatch
>
>
> Darren
>
>