- From: Slein, Judith A <JSlein@crt.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:11:28 -0400
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
There has been no discussion following Jim Davis's mailnote "Proposal: optional backpointers for ACR" of August 19. Unless there are objections, this proposal will be incorporated in the Advanced Collections protocol specification, and a corresponding requirement will be added to the Advanced Collections requirements. The requirement will state: There is an interoperable means of navigating from a resource that is the target of multiple references up the collection hierarchies from which it is referenced. The protocol specification will include: The definition of a new, optional property DAV:references, which provides backpointers from a target to all resources that refer to it. This property is live on servers that choose to support it. It may be present on resources on other servers, but in that case will be dead. Clients can use this property to discover which resources reference the target resource, and by parsing the URLs of the references, can discover the collections where those references reside and navigate up the collection hierarchy. Judith A. Slein Xerox Corporation jslein@crt.xerox.com (716)422-5169 800 Phillips Road 105/50C Webster, NY 14580
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