Conformance class attribute proposal (DR 08-0012)

[Jirka Kosek]

Innovimax SARL wrote:

> I don't think it is a good idea to enforce the type of the value to be a
> float. We don't know what the future would be and we may end up willing
> to have something like "1.2.1" or event "1.2-extended"

+1

Yes, I think that xs:string will be much more future proof.

Just for illustration, see how grammar for version attribute in DocBook
V5 is defined:

http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/#cust-naming

OTOH, I don't expect that people will create subsets/supersets of OOXML
as often as with DocBook.

			Jirka

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