[Bug 7969] New: Fragment: clarify behavior of optional xml

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7969

           Summary: Fragment: clarify behavior of optional xml
           Product: WS-Resource Access
           Version: FPWD
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Fragment
        AssignedTo: public-ws-resource-access-notifications@w3.org
        ReportedBy: dug@us.ibm.com
         QAContact: public-ws-resource-access-notifications@w3.org


WS-Fragment.Put has the following:

[Body]/wst:Put/wsf:Fragment/wsf:Value
    This OPTIONAL element contains the fragment resource representation
corresponding to the subset of the resource identified by the wsf:Expression
element. 

It is not clear to what should happen to any optional/missing bits of XML
not included within this Value.  For example, are any snippets of XML
currently present left unchanged?  Removed? Defaulted to some resource-specific
value?

We should follow the pattern established in Transfer, where it says:
Any optional values (elements or attributes) not specified in the Put request
message will be set to a resource-specific default value. 

Proposal:
Add the following sentence to the end of the paragraph referenced above:

When @Mode is 'Insert' or 'Replace', any optional values (element or
attributes)
within this subset that are not specified in the wsf:Value element will be set
to a resource-specific default value.


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Received on Monday, 19 October 2009 14:45:23 UTC