: Seems like we could handle this 2 ways... leave out the field if it's : not defined in the schema, or include it and write it out as a string. : I think either would probably be more useful than throwing an error : (which isn't really a request error but rather a schema/indexing : error).
i'd leave the field out -- be consistent with the XML format. Assuming it can be written out cleanly as a string could be very very bad in the worse case (i'm thinking of large encoded binary fields, or other types of data that could be expensive to do all the string escaping on) -Hoss
