Re: Version vs. Namespace

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Big question:
> > How does an Atom implementation that is conformant
> e.g. to version
> > 2.48 decide whether unknown Atom-namespace markup
> is 'from its own or
> > an earlier version but not in the specification'
> or 'from a later
> > version than its own'?
> 
> Because instances have version numbers.  I.e. it
> sees <atom:feed 
> version="2.0">
> as opposed to <atom:feed version="3.0">

So Atom will not be backwards compatible? Every time
Atom is revved and some early adopter blog vendor
decides to support it, my users will have to wait for
me to ship another version of RSS Bandit? 


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