Re: Stable Href's of collections

From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
Date: Mon, Apr 03 2000

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    From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Message-ID: <852568B6.00601BD2.00@d54mta03.raleigh.ibm.com>
    Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:29:43 -0400
    Subject: Re: Stable Href's of collections
    
    
    
    
    
    Another indication these stable hrefs aren't that useful. They may enable
    non-versioning clients to do something with versioning meta-data, but it
    won't be easy. To get the members of the collection, a client would have to
    do a PROPFIND depth 1 on the versioned collection's stable href, examine
    all the href's in the result, do a PROPFIND on each one to get the href for
    the associated versioned resouce, and parse the URLs to extract the
    members.
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    I seem to remember that we agreed that deep operations on a collection's
    stable Href would return responses in terms of stable Hrefs.  Makes sense.
    
    Now, assume that I have a stable Href to a collection and would like to
    know the names of the collection's members.  Previously I'd have used
    PROPFIND depth 1 on some property, and got the answer as a "side-effect",
    in the <href> tags.  However, stable <href>'s cannot be used to extract the
    names.
    
    Hmm,
    Tim