Re: Preconditions and the responsedescription element

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:57:31 +0200
• To: werner.donne@re.be
• CC: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
• Message-ID: <44DB576B.40406@gmx.de>

Werner Donné schrieb:
> Adding the error element to the response element is indeed
> nicer, but it would have been safer to add it after all
> "old" elements in the content model, as it was done for the
> location element. Current clients which don't ignore unknown
> elements that intervene in an existing content model different
> from "ANY", will break. It is likely that such clients simply
> consume the elements they know in the known order and then stop.

Well, those clients are broken anyway. I don't see any point in adapting 
  to them.

Are you aware of clients with that problem?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:57:44 UTC