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Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry


Ezra Cooper 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.

If the client was intentionally trying to delete the extension, that's exactly what it would do, isn't it?

Robert Sayre