Re: GET before PUT on an EditURI

[Mark Baker <distobj@xxxxxxx>]

Sounds good!

By "covered" though, I don't think anything more than a blurb saying
"Atom enabled agents MAY support lost update detection.  Those doing
so SHOULD support the mechanism described in
http://www.w3.org/1999/04/Editing/";

Mark.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:56:22AM -0400, Joe Gregorio wrote:
> This does lead to a question of documentation. Should 
> detection of lost updates when using the Atom Publishing 
> Protocol be written into the spec? I don't believe
> that every Atom server MUST support it, just that
> *if* they are going to support detecting lost updates
> than this is how you do it interoperably.
>
> For example, a new section on Detecting Lost Updates 
> could be added that covered that material
> in http://www.w3.org/1999/04/Editing/
> specifically applied to the EditURI.

Mark.
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