Re: [xsl] Schema Versioning - A stylesheet to implement backward compatibility

[Chris Maloney <voldrani@xxxxxxxxx>]

But, how does it work?  If all your stylesheet has is the old schema
and a new-schema-conforming instance document, it doesn't have enough
information.  If your stylesheet encounters a new element not defined
in the old schema, how does it know what to do?

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:28 PM, ihe onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Suppose B an XML Schema issued to our business partners is updated with
> new elements but we want to continue to accept XML that conforms to
> old schema.
>
> Provided that the elements from the old schema are a subset of the
> elements in the new schema this can be done with a transformation.
>
> I have written a stylesheet that takes an XML Schema call it
> old-schema as a parameter and given xml conformant to the new schema
> derives an xml instance that is conformant to old schema .
>
> I believe this to be a generically useful solution and would like some
> suggestions as to where to publish the code - I was thinking EXSLT but
> have never done anything like this before and am not sure it is the
> right forum.