Network Working Group E. Wilde
Internet-Draft EMC
Updates: 5261 (if approved) February 21, 2013
Intended status: Standards Track
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A Media Type for XML Patch Operations
draft-wilde-xml-patch-04
Abstract
The XML Patch media type "application/xml-patch+xml" defines an XML
document structure for expressing a sequence of patch operations that
are applied to an XML document. The XML Patch document format's
foundations are defined in RFC 5261, this specification defines a
document format and a media type registration, so that XML Patch
documents can be labeled with a media type, for example in HTTP
conversations.
In addition to the media type registration, this specification also
updates RFC 5261 in some aspects, limiting these updates to cases
where RFC 5261 needed to be fixed, or was hard to understand.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Patch Document Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Patch Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Implementation Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.1. Matching Namespaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.2. Patching Namespaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.1. From -03 to -04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.2. From -02 to -03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.3. From -01 to -02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.4. From -00 to -01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9.2. Non-Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Appendix A. Updates to RFC 5261 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A.1. Section 4.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A.2. Section 4.4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
A.3. Section 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
A.4. XSD for RFC 5261 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A.5. ABNF for RFC 5261 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Appendix B. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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1. Introduction
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