- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:32:57 -0700
- To: "'webdav'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Babich, Alan wrote: > I don't think that a hand translated version of a document > should normally be stored as a variant. I think that in > general the best thing to do is to store hand translated > versions as separate documents: The current versioning & variants proposal stores every version/variant as a separate resource, meaning that each one can have totally separate properties. Doesn't that solve your problem? Hand translated variants can be extremely important; without them (or some ad hoc mechanism to do the same thing), there's no way to publish a document in multiple languages without requiring the user to pick one manually. -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. |How many roads must a man walk down | |francis@netscape.com | before he admits he is LOST? | \====================================================================/ New area code for work number: 650
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