XMP Specification September 2005 89 XMP Schemas Extensibility of Schemas 4 Extending Schemas Keep in mind the following points when extending a schema: New properties may be added to existing namespaces without “breaking” applications. The definitions of properties in existing namespaces should always remain the same otherwise, applications may produce incorrect behavior. If it is necessary to change the meaning of a property, a new property should be created (and the old one declared as deprecated). It is possible to create a “new version” of a schema namespace. However, there is no logical connection between the old version and the new version. The same local name in two different XML namespaces refers to two different properties
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