quick summary of DASL discussion during WebDAV working group meeting

Hi,

here are my notes of the dicussions around DASL that we had on Monday. They
give a short summary of what has been discussed and how we intend to resolve
these issues. There may be some details I left out (maybe Jim or Elias can
add them?).

Regards, Julian

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Summary of consensus regarding DASL spec changes
(WebDAG WG meeting January, Monday session)

1) Naming / error marshalling

Backwards compatibility to older drafts doesn't seem to be required. It is
therefore acceptable to

- update error marshalling to use RFC3253 semantics
- change element/attribute names for enhanced consistency or precision

(may want to rename DASL header to make detection of "new" server easier)


2) getting "next" results

Feedback is that this is needed. Implementation plan:

- add DAV:skip to DAV:limit
- optionally return identifier for search result that can be submitted with
next request
- consider using HTTP Range header to retrieve part of multistatus response
body


3) language handling (xml:lang)

xml:lang in a search request is ignored. Proposal to add specific operators
comparing the xml:lang of a property value. To do: flesh out syntax and
decide whether optional or not.


4) collation sequences (ordering)

- primarily server defined
- allow "lang" (not xml:lang) attribute to help server in selecting a
default collation
- possibley reserve "collation" attribute for compatibility with XPath
2.0/Query

(summary: make it compatible to XSLT/XPath 2.0 / XQuery)


5) type handling in queries (clarification DAV:literal)

- for DAV:getlastmodified and DAV:creationdate, require DAV:literal to be
an ISO date (otherwise undefined), and make a date comparison a MUST
- for DAV:getcontentlength, require DAV:literal to be a numerical value, and
make a numerical comparison a MUST
- for other live properties which are typed but not defined in RFC2518,
allow
the server to cast the DAV:literal and do a type-aware comparison


6) type handling in queries (new operand DAV:typed-literal)

(dicussion to be added separately)


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Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2003 10:58:47 UTC