- From: Michael Mealling <michaelm@rwhois.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:50:17 -0500
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- CC: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Larry Masinter wrote: > > Could you elaborate a bit on how you imagine using > application/directory as a way of doing "light" metadata? Sure. For those that aren't aware of the application/directory MIME type it is a product of the directory services ASID group within the IETF. The format is basically attribute/value with per attribute qualifiers seperated by semi-colons. Here's an example: Name;encoding=text/plain: Michael Mealling Image;value=url: http://www.foo.com/bla.gif Updated;value=date: 31/12/97 etc... The MIME headers are fairly generic except for the 'profile' attribute of the content-type. This is used to specify the profile or schema that the attributes and value in the body adhere to. WEBDAV would probably define a handfull of these to handle most operations. A profile gets to define a) the possible attributes, b) the possible values and c) the possible attribute qualifiers. Its still a simply attribute value encoding that is simply to parse but it is hooks to allow for handling things like character sets, encodings, schema specification, etc. -MM
Received on Tuesday, 18 March 1997 16:58:20 UTC