Re: [DAIA] Missing items in DAIA

[Jakob V. <Jak...@gb...>]

Hi Oliver,

> I'm wondering how to show that an item is missing in DAIA. Our DAIA
> server is setting a message to the item indicating that it is missing.
> But I guess this is not the way the standard demands (as the message
> field has been dropped from specification).

yes.

> Does it make sense to use the limitation attribute for this use case? I
> thought limitation would only make sense for available items, but
> according to the spec it could also be set for unavailable elements.
>
> Is there any recommendation how to handle missing items?

What's the difference between a missing item and an item being 
unavailable for any other reason? DAIA is not intended for telling
why something in available/unavailable but how.

One solution would be not not return the item at all. If it's missing 
then it's gone, isn't it?

Jakob

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