Re: Update to draft-ietf-webdav-dublin-core

"Geoffrey M. Clemm" wrote:

> The first is: Should there be an XML DTD for WebDAV properties?  I
> believe the answer is "yes", and not only should complex properties be
> describable in XML,

WebDAV properties are already represented in XML (when they go over the wire, at
least--there's an ongoing, nicely irrelevant, dispute over whether properties
*are* XML :-).

> but an entire object, even a collection object,
> should have an XML representation.

What advantages would this representation have over the existing MIME
representation?

> The second is: Should the only way to update a WebDAV object be by
> specifying the full XML description of the new object?

Incremental updates would be nice, but we don't need them in the base protocol,
since they can be replaced (less efficiently) via a sequence of
LOCK/PROPFIND/PROPPATCH/UNLOCK.

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Received on Thursday, 8 October 1998 13:26:04 UTC