Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > If the client was intentionally trying to delete
> the extension, that's
> > exactly what it would do, isn't it?
> 
> Or should it return the entry with the element
> empty? I think
> that would more clearly show the intention.

It depends on the type of the element. If the server
is using an XSD schema on the backend then some
elements with simple types (e.g. numeric values or
dates) would be considered invalid if they were empty. 

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