Re: Experimental TESTxx header usage.

[Stuart Booth]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:15:29 +0100, "Kevin Hawkins"
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wrote:

> The xAP specification committee agreed in the v1.2 spec release,
>(although we did not publish it), to allow the inclusion of TEST
headers
>within xAP messages as a way of trialling suggested features. It is
>perfectly permissible to use, for your own purposes - (see below) the
name
>value pairs Test00 to Test09 in the HEADER .

Did you mean Test99?

> Please note that the spec for
>xAP v1.2 says that all 'unexpected name value pairs' will be gracefully
>ignored so this should not break anyones implementation. ;-). All such
>parameters can safely be ignored as they are not part of the spec.

Oops. You just knew you'd get a reaction from me, didn't you? :-)) Yes
folks, my framework just says "No!" when it encounters rubbish. I
prefer to stop that stuff and fix it rather than casually let it pass,
but in this case I'll change it.

>What
>I should also mention is that for example Test06 as used in my
applications
>(UKUSA) is NOT to be confused with Test06 as used by say Stuart
(KCSOFT). To
>that end you should regard my usage of Test06 as really
"UKUSA.Test06"
>different to KCSOFT.Test06. Now whether you personally chose to
validate
>this is your choice - you run the risk that someone else's app may use
the
>same name/value pairs for a different purpose if you don't.

I'll add that to my ToDo list for my next batch of xAPFramework
updates.

S
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