RE: [xml] libxml questions

["Jain, Nilesh" <nilesh jain intel com>]

>On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
>> No, I got it.. its working.. but the oldest tarball I see there is
>> 2.6.20 so having problem running against the libxml2 which is
currently
>> shipped with the distro, most of them are still on 2.6.17... and no
test
>> tarball available for that..  Are these test forward compatible I
mean
>> can I run 2.6.17 test against 2.6.22 libxml2?
>
>  it probably won't work:
>    - because the API extended
>    - because testing schemas regression tests on older releases won't
>      work either.

My understanding is that API test should work as library has stable
API/ABI, I understand that new API will not be tested if added later. Is
it correct understanding?