- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:51:08 +0200
- To: <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
> [mailto:ietf-dav-versioning-request@w3.org]Im Auftrag von Clemm, Geoff > > > From: Jim Amsden [mailto:jamsden@us.ibm.com] > > 2) the difficulty clients will have in determining the > > type of the resource - they have to know the property > > semantics instead of relying on the server to hide these > > semantics, > > From: Tim Ellison > No, they just need to look and see if the properties and/or methods > are supported to correctly type the resource. The latest draft of > the spec has an appendix that spells this out. > > > From: Jim Amsden > > The "semantics" I referred to above is checking for the existence > of some set of properties. > > Just to be precise, the check is for whether the properties > are supported, not whether or not they exist (i.e. a resource > can support a property even if the property does not currently > exist on that resource). I knew I had not fully understood this. :( The spec is silent about what a "supported" property is compared to an "existing" property. Geoff, could you define exectly when a property is part of the supported-live-property-set? Is there a newer working draft than 15.1? Where can I get it? Stefan
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