RE: structured documents [draft-hopmann-collection-props-00.txt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: james anderson [mailto:James.Anderson@mecomnet.de]
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 3:53 PM
> To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: Re: structured documents
> [draft-hopmann-collection-props-00.txt]
> 
> 
> >    * Cross-server documents: with multipart/related, the 
> external body parts
> >      can live anywhere on the Net (well, anywhere 
> accessible to the client,
> >      anyway ;-).  With collections, this works only if the 
> DAV server supports
> >      references.
> 
> i have to look back at the webdav spec for this....
> i'm not sure what the issue is in this paragraph. "reference" 
> does not appear
> to be a special term w.r.t dav collections. which i would 
> take to mean that
> uri's suffice - which i would expect any http-capable server 
> to support... ?
> 

There are several specifications being worked on in addition to the core
WebDAV specification.  One of them is on advanced collections and includes
referencing and ordered collections:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/collection/draft-ietf-webdav-collecti
on-protocol-02.txt

Received on Thursday, 14 January 1999 16:41:56 UTC