- From: <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:57:14 -0500
- To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
This is one of the reasons that baselines should be used instead of labels, whenever possible (baselines are identified by URL's, not text strings, so they have none of these problems). As I recall, the "octet-by-octet" phrasing was written with the label header in mind, but I agree that this phrasing doesn't work so well with XML. Perhaps some of the folks that care about labels could comment here? Cheers, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:00 AM To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org Subject: LABEL comparison Hi, the spec says in chapter 8 [1]: "...SHOULD use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of the two label names." I think this must be "character-by-character comparison". The term "octet" isn't meaningful here because we have XML based marshalling. Furthermore, I'm not convinced that [2]: "The value of a label header is the name of a label, encoded using UTF-8. For example, the label "release-2.0" is identified by the following header:" is compatible with HTTP and existing servlet engines. Has anybody *tested* this? Maybe it would be better to specify URL-encoded UTF-8 instead. Julian [1] <http://www.webdav.org/deltav/protocol/draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-20.htm#_ Toc524830601> [2] <http://www.webdav.org/deltav/protocol/draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-20.htm#_ Toc524830606>
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