On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:24 PM, David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you change the namespace then you
> change the name of every construct in the language, that isn't a new
> version it is a new, incompatible, language.
>

I find this a nice argument, to keep the namespace name same for different
versions of an XML vocabulary (and the XSLT language as well).


> It is unfortunate that there is a date in the namespace but that was
> forced by W3C policy at the time (which was later changed) but early
> ones, eg mathml 1998, xslt and xhtml 1999, are stuck with the original
> dates.


 Thanks for sharing this perspective.



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Mukul Gandhi