Re: Preconditions and the responsedescription element

No, I'm not. It is just a remark about a defensive way
to extend a content model.

Regards,

Werner.

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Werner Donn=E9 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.
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> Well, those clients are broken anyway. I don't see any point in adaptin=
g
>  to them.
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> Are you aware of clients with that problem?
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> Best regards, Julian
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