Re: Tombstones

[James M Snell <jasnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Lees wrote:
> [snip]
> Agreed. But with the <x:deleted> element, you're still passing unnecessary 
> info to the client. If you go and delete ALL of the entries from the feed, 
> then the client receives a feed with nothing but tombstones, which it didn't 
> want in the first place. In that case, asking the client to opt-in seems like 
> a pretty good idea.
> [snip]

Perhaps, but there's really not a lot of harm in that; the feed could
end up having lots of information any given client may not find useful.
And if an opt-in mechanism really is needed, one could be used just as
easily with x:deleted as it could with tombstone entries -- that is, the
choice of how to represent the tombstone is orthogonal to the mechanism
clients use to request tombstones.

- James