Re: [xml] libxml questions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:34:08AM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat 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.
>
> Can you help me understand why schemas regression tests won't work on
> older release. Is it because of schema change.. or something else.

  Incredibly hard to implement fully.

Daniel

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