- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 10:04:13 -0700
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
- CC: Meta2 Mailing List <meta2@net.lut.ac.uk>
"David G. Durand" wrote: > If it supports no such feature, we have already lost searchability of > multiple valued Dublin attributes anyway, since only signle values will be > effectively searchable at the server end. But this applies to any structured DAV property. The DASL group has discussed the possibility of searching structured properties, and (as far as I can tell) has not given up yet (there's a proposal on the table from Alan, though I don't see any responses on the list). > The alternative is to have a single property: DAV:DublinMetadata that > contains the entire XML representation of the meta-data. That will, I am > pretty sure, be defined eventually by the Dublin core folks, and we simply > need to reserve the attribute, and describe its purpose. But this will make things even less searchable, and much less manageable. > This is actually rather unpleasant: the use of ordered list tags from > another DTD to indicate multiple values is a pretty serious case of tag > abuse. What's wrong with defining <ol> in a property (or at least a Dublin Core property) to have the meaning we need? > A namespace declaration needs to be part of the property, and so should > appear in the example. OK, I'll add it. > or we start needing to store parallel synchronized lists in different > properties, which is a pain for clients, and harder for servers (and pretty > much requires a big implementation, as it won't work with simple dead > property storage, which seems pretty bad to me. I disagree--the DAV server just sees them as separate dead properties; it doesn't have to know that there's any relationship among them. > This solve the property naming problem, but not the fact that we need a way > to synchronize several such values into a single creator. OK, here's your straight line: Why? -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. | Know your limits, then destroy 'em. | |francis@netscape.com | | \====================================================================/
Received on Thursday, 8 October 1998 13:15:38 UTC