Storing the version will make it possible to handle files with different variants/version of the standard correctly. This is useful in case we ever need or want to break compatability.
Addressing this via discussion on the CREATE mailing list and http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster/Draft/VersionNumber
Now incorporated into the stack.xml spec.
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