Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Ezra Cooper <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>  
> But Rob raises the question: how to express the
> deletion of an element. I'm
> not sure. Is there ever a difference between
> "element X is not in the entry"
> and "element X has an empty value"? 

Yes. 

> This must have
> been dealt with a hundred
> times in other XML protocols. What's the standard
> practice?

There isn't one. Which leads to interop problems in
XML Web Service scenarios. Nelson Minar mentioned this
specific issue in his talk at ETech last week.  

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