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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [libnftables PATCH v3] src: xml: add versioning
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:15:55 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> 2013/6/5 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:58:38PM +0200, Arturo Borrero wrote:
> >> All XML chunks now have a "version" attribute to help in future changes.
> >
> > Not sure this is the best approach after reading this:
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2014237/what-are-the-best-practices-for-versioning-xml-schemas
> >
> > Can you give it some read and get back to me with more feedback
> > regarding the XML versioning approaches?
> >
> 
> The version attribute could be add to the top level element (e.g.
> <nftables> in the ruleset dump example I sent).
> A drawback of this is that the version cannot be checked when parsing
> loose/single elements.

Fair enough. Applied, thanks.