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PutResponse allows for the current representation to be excluded if it matches what was passed in on the Put request. However, it also allows for extension elements to be there. Given the presence of just one element, how does the client know if this one element is the current representation or an extension? proposal: unless some extension is defined, the PutResponse should be limited to just zero or one child elements under the PutResponse element. In other words, no extension by default: zero children == new representation is what was passed in on the request one child == here's the new representation.
2009-03-11 proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Mar/0063.html
proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Mar/0088.html
resolved on 2009-05-12 with proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Apr/att-0162/I6594-6672-6673-prop-ibm.doc