Re: [xml-dev] Caution using XML Schema backward- or forward-compatibility as a versioning strategy for data exchange
bryan rasmussen wrote: > Well, I think changing the semantics of elements falls outside the > normal understanding of compatibility. > > I agree...if you change the meaning of an element, you have broken forward compatibility. Forward compatibility for any grammar has to take into account not only the data in the elements, but the semantic definition of what those elements mean.