- From: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:53:30 PDT
- To: Rick Henderson <rickh@netscape.com>
- Cc: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
Just let me make sure we are making the same distinction. DAV defines properties to be name/value pairs. When I say a property does not exist on a given resource, I mean neither that property name nor a value is present. For the property to exist, the name has to be present, but its value could be empty or set to NULL. I wanted to claim that in the DAV world, it's possible for different resources on the same server to have completely different sets of properties, so that it would make sense for someone to ask whether the "author" property exists on a given resource -- meaning, whether a property with that name exists for the resource, regardless of whether its value is empty or NULL or "Henderson". Is this something a text search engine would have a problem with? At 05:16 PM 4/22/98 PDT, Rick Henderson wrote: >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 >************************************************* > > > > > Name: Judith A. Slein E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 Fax: (716) 422-2938 MailStop: 105-50C Web Site: http://www.nde.wrc.xerox.com/users/Slein/slein.htm
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