- From: Chris Knight <Christopher.D.Knight@nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:02:17 -0700
- To: frank.judge@corp.palm.com
- Cc: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Frank Judge wrote: >I've read over the specifications and want to know if I'm missing >something or if you considered a capability. For properties in a schema >that have large amounts of data, does WebDAV specify a means to retrieve >only portions of that data? For example, if you have a document object >that has only a text property containing all the document data, you may >only want the first 100K of a 10 megabyte document. For email the POP >and IMAP protocols allow subsets of the message data to be retrieved ( >POP TOP command for instance ). Have you thought of allowing retrieval >of only a subset of property data, and if you have could you point me to >the reference that shows how? > > Alas, WebDAV does not allow for retrieval of part of a property. It would be very interesting and useful for large structured properties, as you've said. Probably would have to support XPath...http://www.w3c.org/TR/xpath
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