Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- 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.
> 
> Should I draft a proposal?

Sounds good to me. 

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