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The DocBook Technical Committee has long operated under to the following rule: backwards incompatible changes can only be introduced at a major version change (e.g, V4.x to V5.0) and only if the changes were announced in the previous major version (e.g., V4.0). At the 17 Mar 2004 meeting[1], the TC voted to grant itself a one-time exception to this rule. It has been a long time since V4.0 and quite a few backwards incompatible changes have collected in the intervening years. In addition, according to our current plans, the DocBook V5.0 release will be based on a RELAX NG schema. Changing validation technologies is an opportunity to clean up a number of long-standing issues and the TC intends to do just that. As a result, the DocBook V5.0 schema is expected to contain backwards incompatible changes that were not announced in V4.0. A complete list of these planned changes will be published as soon as it is available. Be seeing you, norm [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200403/msg00032.html -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | A philosophical contempt of life http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | is no guarantee of courage in the Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | face of death.--Gustave Vapereau
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