James M Snell wrote:
As with several of the other drafts I put out a while back, I let these expire because at the time there was no solid consensus or significant demonstrated interest. Was hoping that someone other than myself would go out and get some implementation experience on these issues. I can certain help to move them forward if there's enough interest.
FWIW, I've had a working implementation of the deleted-entry element in an internal build of Snarfer which I've been using for months now. It should be more-or-less compatible with drafts 1, 4 and 5.
However I believe we decided against including the code in our public release because the future direction of the spec seemed very much up in the air at the time. If the spec ever did get finalised in a form resembling draft 5, it would be easy to ship it in our next release (although, to be honest, I'm not sure that's going to happen anytime soon).
Regards James
