- From: Rick Henderson <rickh@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:16:50 -0700
- To: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- CC: "Babich, Alan" <ABabich@filenet.com>, "'Saveen Reddy (Exchange)'" <saveenr@Exchange.Microsoft.com>, www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
Judith Slein wrote: > I think in the DAV world it does make sense to ask whether a property > exists on a given resource, where you are not testing for a null value. A > DAV server may allow clients to define whatever properties they wish on any > resource, so that it may turn out every resource on the server has a > different set of properties. > If the storage meachanism behind the DAV server is a text search engine rather than a RDBMS it may not be so easy to determine the difference between a property with a null value and a property that has never been set. It's problematic from an implementation standpoint. --Rick ************************************************* Rick Henderson (Netscape)(650)937-3152 rickh@netscape.com *************************************************
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