- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:18:13 +0000
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Jim Davis wrote: > As I see it, there are three proposals: > 1. monolithic. > 2. structured properties (e.g. list values) > 3. flattened. > > Monolithic is bad for the reasons I just explained. "flattened" was > proposed (I suppose) in case DASL did not have structured query, Flattened was addressed in order to mirror a (now obsolete, apparently) proposal within Dublin Core, which would have implemented structured elements by flattening them. The DC group is now working on an RDF-based system; since RDF is expressed in XML, we can handle it with structured properties. -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. | Don't anthropomorphize computers. | |francis@netscape.com | They don't like it. | \====================================================================/ New area code for work number: 650
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