[Xcb] GSoC 2009: XKB and XI2 support

[Barton C Massey]

I don't think I believe this.  Generating partial code from
a spec would be bad for semi-obvious reasons.  Failing to
generate code with no explanation would be annoying.  I'd
rather get a warning that "foo.xml requires xcb-xml 5.7
which is not supported by this translator" than "syntax
error at line 12" or worse yet silent failure to generate
code.

	Bart

In message <20090917013638.GC3274 at feather> you wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:47:59AM -0700, Barton C Massey wrote:
> > We should add an "xml-version" attribute to the <xcb> tag,
> > in fact we should have done this long ago.  Then things that
> > don't yet understand new syntax can simply ignore files with
> > too-new version.  This means that wireshark wouldn't
> > immediately be able to decode XKB, but it can't do that now
> > AFAIK.
> 
> So, after thinking about this further, I realized that versioning seems
> somewhat superfluous.  XML-XCB doesn't work like HTML or other markup
> languages; if you see something you don't understand in a protocol spec,
> give up and don't even try.
> 
> - Josh Triplett