- From: Alex Hopmann (Exchange) <alexhop@exchange.microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:44:41 -0800
- To: "'jamsden@us.ibm.com'" <jamsden@us.ibm.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, "'www-webdav-dasl@w3.org'" <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
Jim Amsden wrote: > seem to imply that in order for DASL to be useful and > effective, it must > support structured searches. I disagree with this statement. DASL as currently specified supports all sorts of useful queries. There are also some sorts of things that it can't do. Future versions SHOULD incorporate technology such as XQL, XSL, etc, in order to provide more sophisticated types of searches. The fundamental issue is- Given the many sorts of useful queries that DASL 1.0 as currently published can support, do we really want to wait for the W3C groups to solve the more complicated structured query problem, or should we move our current simple syntax forward without adding extra complexity and take advantage of our extensibility to do a 2.0 later once the various X*L technologies are finished? As an IETF activity, obviously we need the rough consensus of the community to proceed with this decision, so I'd like to continue this discussion to make sure as many people as possible are happy with this. Please let me know what your concerns are. Alex Hopmann Microsoft Corporation
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