> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:02:05 -0400
> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > 4. This specific request from the client contains two record
> >    specifications: the XPath (preferred) and DC (fallback),
> >    clearly marked as such.
>
> I know you're trying to be helpful, but I really don't like this
> whole conversation.

:-)  And there was Theo, thinking _I_ was the Bag Guy!  :-)

> [snip]
> The only way that Theo can send the exact same string to a bunch of
> servers is if he knows that the string works on all those servers.
> One way he might know that is if he knows that they've agreed to a
> common profile.  But, there's no way that he's going to get a single
> string to work on an arbitrary list of servers.  None.  Stop trying.

It's all true.  I knew I shouldn't have tried "nice".  It just wasn't
me, was it?

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