Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
Being able to send wf-but-ns-illformed documents would not make much
sense if you couldn't also read them back in, and the odds that some
wf-but-ns-illformed has been created deliberately for use with XHR
as opposed to being created due to some mistake, seem too low to make
supporting this worthwhile.
I do not disagree with that.
But as you said, it's probably a mistake. There are several ways to
handle this:
1) throw an exception on serialization
2) send the document, and let the recipient detect the problem
3) silent data loss (sending empty body)
In cases 1) and 2), the caller will find out about the problem, in case
3) s/he might not. That is a problem (keep in mind that there are HTTP
resources/method handlers that both support an XML request body and an
empty body, and the difference *does* make a difference).
BR, Julian
