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Re: [Models] X- options on schema elements




Prasad,

Vithalprasad Gaitonde wrote:
Section 4.1 of [Models] says:
"Implementors should note that future versions of this document may
  expand these definitions to include additional terms.  Terms whose
  identifier begins with "X-" are reserved for private experiments,
and
  are followed by <SP> and <qdstrings> tokens."

Why is there a restriction  that the X-<tag> be followed by qdstrings
alone. Shouldnt implementations be allowed to return binary values as
well here.

The restriction is so that implementations not recognizing the private experiment can skip over and ignore the extension if they happen to encounter it.

Regards,
Steven