Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry

[Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:05:02 -0800, Ezra Cooper <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What about clients' obligations with unknown elements? My expectation would
> be that clients preserve them. Say that my server has an entry
> 
>   <entry>
>     <title>Tintin's Dog Snowy Is White</title>
>     <content>Herewith, some notes on Tintin's dog.</content>
>     <tintin:snowycolor>white</tintin:snowycolor>
>   </entry>
> 
> and tintin:snowycolor is unknown to my client. If my client wants to change
> the title to "On the Pigment of Tintin's Dog", it will GET the entry, make a
> change, and POST it. I would not expect the data in the snowycolor extension
> to get lost.

+1

   -joe 

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