- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:01:38 +0100
- To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Back in October, Geoff Clemm wrote: > If we handled it the way proposed below, the old clients will just ignore > the new element, and the user will incorrectly conclude that the collection > had no child by that name. With the original proposal, users of > old clients will be told that there is a child, and will get the > error message that they've already seen that child, so it is > being left out of the report. I think the later is preferable. I agree that introducing a new error marshalling concept just for an edge case here (Depth: infinity and bind loop) is unnecessary, in particular if it may confuse old clients. Therefore the issue should be closed. Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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