Re: Addition of a delete method from Elliotte Harold on 2006-04-02 (www-forms@w3.org from April 2006)

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:54:38 -0400
To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
CC: www-forms@w3.org
Message-ID: <44301DEE.7020508@metalab.unc.edu>

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We have discussed adding other methods to XForms submission, and I'm keen to
> see us supporting everything we need for REST and WebDAV in particular. But
> I think a really, really big omission is a 'delete' method, since without it
> we cannot do a lot of things that would be regarded as quite basic (i.e.,
> CRUD operations).
> 

Just to mention one real-world use case: The Atom Publishing Protocol 
(APP) depends critically on DELETE.

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