Re: text in pre/postcondition

Arnaud Quillaud wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The definition of the pre/postconditions mentions that "If not specified 
> otherwise, the content for each condition's XML element is defined to be 
> empty." (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-16)
> 
> Implicitly, this seems to indicate that one can not stuff text within 
> the condition element (at least for the ones defined by webdav) which is 
> unfortunate as this would be very useful for interoperability testing.

One could argue that the standard extensibility rules apply, thus you 
could have a custom child element which then in turn contains the text.

> Was this restriction made on purpose ?

As far as I recall, the purpose was to avoid specifying DTD fragments 
for each of them.

> Are there implementations that actually do stuff text within the 
> condition ?

I haven't seen that in practice.

> Thanks,
> 
> Arnaud Q
> 
> PS: I'm assuming that the same restriction applies to CalDAV/CardDAV 
> (?...).

Yes, by inheritance, I'd say.

BR, Julian