- From: Fabio Vitali <fabio@cs.unibo.it>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:18:39 +0100
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>Clients who make small changes to resources do not wish to have to >upload an entire entity. As such, some sort of partial write capability >is needed. I've been waiting for this topic to appear in this list. I propose VTML as an interchange language for the description of partial resources. VTML is more general than the method proposed by Yaron, and can accomodate many more types of operations besides INSERTions and OVERWRITEs Furthermore, and I think this is particularly important, it does not add to the "methoditis" and "headeritis" that recent proposals suffer from. Following the content-type vs. headers discussion of this week, I believe that a complex issue such as partial resource description can not be accomodated with a few methods and headers, but a specific content-type needs to be introduced. I believe VTML fits the bill. Since its first proposal at the IV WWW Conference, VTML has added the possibility of using new user-defined change operations, and has become independent of the data type it describes versions of. This means that VTML is not only good for HTML any more, but can be considered for arbitrary (including binary) data types. You can find the most recent proposal for VTML at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~fabio/bio/Working/Versioning/VTML.html Fabio
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