On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jonathan Schleifer <[email protected]> wrote: > I think referencing the old message by content is not a good idea. First, > there might have been another message with the exact same content. Second, it > is unnecessary traffic. I'd recommend something like this: > > <message id="bad"> > <body>wrong message</body> > </message> > > <message id="good"> > <body>corrected message</body> > <replaces id="bad"/> > </message> > > This will also be backwards-compatible with clients that don't support it and > the overhead is so minimal that you might even skip checking for that feature.
I agree. That's why your suggestion is almost a copy and paste of the example in my proposal. /K
