Re: Protocol: modification items may violate schema

["Mark Smith" <markcsmithwork@aol.com>]

Timothy
Hahn wrote:

>   Jim,
>   
>   
>   I had always interepreted
> this as indicating
> that even if "silly things" are done in some of the modificationItems,
> that the server shouldn't necessarily fail the modification because an
> "intermediate result" was not compliant to the schema definitions.
>   
>   
>   Re-stated, an entry in the
> process of
> being modified (within an atomic operation) is allowed to be
> non-compliant
> to the schema, but by the end of applying all the modifications (at the
> end of the atomic operation) the entry MUST be schema compliant.
>   
>   
>   That's how I always
> interpreted it.
Me too.  Another way to
look at (from the server implementor's perspective) is that some kinds
of schema checks may only be done on the "final" entry that results
from application of all of the items in the modify operation.

-Mark