Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> OK, what if they drop atom:summary on the floor?

Some blog tools don't support summaries so I'd expect
them to drop them on the floor. Some blog tools don't
support user specified dates and will drop them on the
floor. For example, MSN Spaces doesn't support either
one of the above. 

It's open to debate whether we should actually return
an error in this case. I have little problem with
doing this on the server side. 

However it is a significant burden for clients because
it means they'll have to know every single entry
element supported by every single blog service they
support posting to. I'd find this to be just as bad as
the MetaWeblog API mess that we have today. 

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