• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:02:12 +0100

On 26/04/2011 13:46, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Has anyone developed a strategy for upgrading their XML Schemas to XML Schema 1.1?
>
> A 1.0 schema is a 1.1 schema. Thus, you can switch to using a 1.1 validator today and there will be no impact. Switching to using an XML Schema 1.1 validator is step #1.
>
> What's the next step?
>

Depends on your business objectives. For example, you might want to 
eliminate a processing step that's currently occurring after XSD 
validation, or you might want to do stricter/stronger validation than 
you are currently doing, or you might want to make your schema 
components more reusable.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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