From ce8cbe6f76b6e890ed40d82f51bb214bb1d888a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Schmaus Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:37:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] data forms: clarify that the submitting entity may omit optional fields It is not really spelled out that the submitting entity may omit fields not mark as required by the processing entity. Even though the existence of the flag on form fields is a strong hint towards this, it is worth to explicitly state that. --- xep-0004.xml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/xep-0004.xml b/xep-0004.xml index 448f090a..a31a9b76 100644 --- a/xep-0004.xml +++ b/xep-0004.xml @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ submit - The form-submitting entity is submitting data to the form-processing entity. The submission MAY include fields that were not provided in the empty form, but the form-processing entity MUST ignore any fields that it does not understand. + The form-submitting entity is submitting data to the form-processing entity. The submission MAY include fields that were not provided in the empty form, but the form-processing entity MUST ignore any fields that it does not understand. Furthermore, the submission MAY omit fields not marked with >required/< by the form-processing entity. cancel