On 13.5.2013 17:32, Felix Sasaki wrote:
> What do you have in mind as "processing expectations"? The nature of
> extensions is that everything can happen, no?
It's common to say what is application supposed to do when it encounters
unknown element -- it can either ignore it or abort. Some specifications
keep this completely unspecified, which can lead to interop problems.
Some specs are trying to solve this problem by introducing attributes
like mustUnderstand which are used for labelling those extensions which
can't be ignored.
Jirka
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