On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Joe Hildebrand <joe.hildebr...@webex.com>wrote:
> On 5/25/11 10:00 AM, "Mark Rejhon" <marky...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > To date, I had the opportunity to implement my prototype standard > (upcoming > > resubmission) in two different programming languages -- C# and Java. I > > learned that different XML libraries handles namespace versioning very > > differently. With one XML library, I was able to monitor all namespaces > > that matched a specific wildcard, which is useful for translating that to > > the end user warning that a software upgrade is needed. But for a > > different XML library, my software was 100% blissfully ignorant of all > > namespaces that did not have an exact match. So it was not possible (or > > easy) to translate that to a warning to the user to upgrade the software. > > The first library has a bug. > An XML library supporting namespace filtering based on wildcards has a "bug"? You can even do that with XPath. -- Glenn Maynard
