# Change in default xml, rjs respond\_to templates that Rails l

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**Created:** [April 10, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-in-default-xml-rjs-respond-to-templates-that-rails-l/91546 "2007-04-10T09:41:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-in-default-xml-rjs-respond-to-templates-that-rails-l/91546/1 "2007-04-10T09:41:44Z")

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Not sure if this is the right avenue to discuss this but I couldn’t  
find anywhere to ask this question on Rails Trac.

Regarding this latest changeset:  
[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/6507](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/6507) (Change default respond\_to  
templates for xml and rjs formats.)

Does anyone know the rationale behind it? I can imagine there would be  
an announcement in the future about this backward compatibility  
breaking change, but I am living on the edge for one of my projects so  
I’m curious.

Also, if any Rails committers see this, maybe you can consider making  
it fallback to the old defaults and (throw a deprection warning) if  
the new defaults can’t be found so that there is no need to either  
rename the RJS templates or tell Rails which template to use (using  
render :action =\> “#{action\_name}.rjs”)?

Thanks!