> But if we bake into the spec that blank values should not be included in > the XML representation, then the current mechanism falls apart since you > can't tell the difference between "I left it out so leave it alone" and > "I"m setting it to null".
This is covered in the OSLC-CM specification. For partial update, you specify oslc.properties for the properties you want to update. You can clear a value by putting it in oslc.properties, but leaving the value out of the request. [1] - Sam [1] http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmSpecificationV2?sortcol=table;up=#Requesting_and_Updating_Properti
