[bv-dev] Changes in BV XML schemas

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Gunnar Morling wrote:

>> One scenario (but not necessary often used) is forward "compatibility" where
>> an BV 1.1 application run in an BV 1.0 implementation. With the version
>> field in place, BV 1.0 implementor can check and handle the incompatibility
>> easier and provided a more meaningful error message than taking an exception
>> from the parser for any BV 1.1 syntax.
> 
> Hmmm, I think this would work if there was a "version" attribute in
> the BV 1.0 schema. But as there isn't, a BV 1.0 provider would stumble
> upon the unknown attribute when validating a 1.1 descriptor.

RIght. It would require new releases of the 1.0 implementations to handle this version attribute.
I doubt existing implementation would be able to handle it.

--Hardy