- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:01:14 PDT
- To: "Yaron Goland" <yarong@microsoft.com>, "'Slein, Judith A'" <JSlein@crt.xerox.com>, "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
- Cc: "Falkenhainer, Brian" <Brian_Falkenhainer@mc.xerox.com>, "Garnaat, Mitchell" <MGarnaat@crt.xerox.com>, "'Jim Davis'" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, "Jim Whitehead (E-mail)" <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
Yaron, I don't understand what's 'quite complex' about suggesting that there be a DAV:parents property and that interoperable clients that want to work with the typical document management based systems as well as file-server based systems should use PROPFIND of DAV:parents in order to walk up the hierarchy, rather than just trying to parse the URL tree. It's simple, backward compatible, doesn't cost much in terms of server implementation, and much more resiliant. Yes, there's a hierarchy, and yes, if you use it, there's a clear way to use it, but that's very different from _requiring_ that the hierarchy be used. Put the burden of understanding the hierarchical forms on the servers, not on the clients. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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