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From: "Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI" <Tim_Ellison@oti.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:08:18 -0400
Subject: Re: Stable Href's of collections
Ah, but I think stable hrefs *are* useful, for various reasons, not least
of which the stable href is the identity (urn) of the resource.
Your suggestion of PROPFIND depth 1 on the versioned collection href, the
getting the href of the versioned resource won't work since the versioned
resource is also a stable href and cannot be parsed to extract it's
members.
Tim
jamsden@us.ibm.com
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est@w3.org Subject: Re: Stable Href's of collections
03-04-00 01:29 PM
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