- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 10:52:50 -0800
- To: "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
1. There is currently no way to get just a list of URLs without any properties. As this information wouldn't even contain an indication if a resource was an empty collection or a normal resource this wasn't considered a compelling requirement. 2. You WILL get the href for every member, even if it doesn't have the property you are looking for. This is a limited search so knowing that a resource doesn't have a particular property is just as important as knowing its value for resources that do. I will put in language to make this clearer. Yaron > -----Original Message----- > From: Judith Slein [SMTP:slein@wrc.xerox.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 7:38 AM > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: INDEX vs. PROPFIND > > I have a couple of questions about what it will mean to get rid of INDEX > and use PROPFIND instead. > > 1. What if all I want is the list of URLs of the members of the > collection, and I don't want to see any properties? The Propfind request > header currently requires at least one property to be requested. > > 2. What will PROPFIND behavior be if I ask for, say, the author property > and the title property, and some of the members of the collection have > those properties while others do not? What I want to happen if I'm using > PROPFIND as a substitute for INDEX is that I get at least the href for > every member of the collection, whether or not it has the properties I > requested. > > --Judy > > > Name: Judith A. Slein > E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com > Phone: (716) 422-5169 > Fax: (716) 422-2938 > > Xerox Corporation > Mail Stop 105-50C > 800 Phillips Road > Webster, NY 14580
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