Re: XML Schema language version

On Oct 10, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Timothy W. Cook wrote:

> Thanks for this addition to oXygen.=20
> The maxVersion issue needs to be fixed in the specs.  I think everyone =
agrees that the current definition is just non-sensical.=20

Well, no.

The initial draft of the vc:* namespace had inclusive semantics for=20
both minVersion and maxVersion, and the WG received a strong
objection from another WG which wanted a way to ensure that
all possible decimal version numbers were covered exactly once.

It's not at all nonsensical, and not particularly hard to work with.

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