Re: Handling unknown elements in an entry

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Bray wrote:

> Uh, Rob, isn't that a red herring?  If you explicitly want to delete 
> anything, you're within your rights.  I think the point is that clients 
> should silently discard extension data... or am I missing something? -Tim

I think we are just talking past each other.

Ezra wrote:
"What about clients' obligations with unknown elements? My expectation 
would be that clients preserve them."

And I was thinking "no, clients delete parts of an entry by not 
preserving them."

But Ezra wasn't talking about savvy clients. He was talking about 
ignorant ones. I think.

Robert Sayre