RFC 7351 · INFORMATIONAL · 2014

A Media Type for XML Patch Operations

Overview

RFC 7351, “A Media Type for XML Patch Operations”, is an Informational document published in August 2014 by E. Wilde. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The XML patch document format defines an XML document structure for expressing a sequence of patch operations to be applied to an XML document. The XML patch document format builds on the foundations defined in RFC 5261. This specification also provides the media type registration "application/xml-patch+xml", to allow the use of XML patch documents in, for example, HTTP conversations.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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