- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:17:50 -0800
- To: "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Cc: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
The solution is not to prevent locking of collections. There are excellent scenarios for collection locking, for example, controlling what is added to a directory. Rather there are certain types of collections, such as histories, which should not be lockable. This will be specified in their definition. Yaron >-----Original Message----- >From: Judith Slein [SMTP:slein@wrc.xerox.com] >Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 1997 8:02 AM >To: Yaron Goland >Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org >Subject: RE: Open Issues - Hierarchical Collections > >Well, I guess I'm suggesting that you don't want people to be able to lock a >collection. Does that mean it can't be a resource? > >Similar awkward questions arise about tree handles and version histories, >which people shouldn't be able to edit. > >--Judy > >At 08:47 PM 2/7/97 PST, Yaron Goland wrote: >>I am currently working on the specification to allow for searching of >>collection contents. Collections are sets and thus are unordered. If you >>want compound documents collections are absolutely the wrong place to >>go. As for multiple, simultaneous users of collections, what problem are >>you concerned w/? It is up to the server to serialize commands. >> >> Yaron >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org [SMTP:w3c-dist-auth@w3.org] >>>Sent: Friday, February 07, 1997 12:32 PM >>>To: Jim Whitehead >>>Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org >>>Subject: Re: Open Issues - Hierarchical Collections >>> >>>Here are a few other questions I had about hierarchical collections: >>> >>>It should be possible to search a hierarchical collection based on >>>attribute >>>values. We might not want to provide methods for performing searches, but >>>we need to know that such searches are feasible. >>> >>>Can members of a collection be ordered (so that collections can be used to >>>implement compound documents)? >>> >>>Can many people add objects to a collection and remove objects from a >>>collection at once? >>> >>>--Judy >>>Name: Judith A. Slein >>>E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com >>>Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 >>>External Phone: (716) 422-5169 >>>Fax: (716) 265-7133 >>>MailStop: 128-29E >> >> >> >Name: Judith A. Slein >E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com >Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 >External Phone: (716) 422-5169 >Fax: (716) 265-7133 >MailStop: 128-29E >
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