Re: Preconditions and the responsedescription element

Julian Reschke <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:57:31 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.deltav
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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