Anomaly in the DAV:prop element usage

• From: Geoffrey M. Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:08:50 -0500
• To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
• Message-Id: <10001062308.AA19169@tantalum>

In rfc2518, the example of propfind in 8.1.1 issues a PROPFIND
request with a DAV:prop element of the form:

     <D:prop xmlns:R="http://www.foo.bar/boxschema/">
          <R:bigbox/>
          <R:author/>
          <R:DingALing/>
          <R:Random/>
     </D:prop>

It is very likely that this violates at least some of the element
definitions for R:bigbox, R:author, R:DingALing, and R:Random.

I have gone to some trouble to avoid this kind of element definition
violation in the versioning spec, but since it didn't bother the
authors of 2518, should I not let it bother me?  As was pointed out
in an earlier thread, there are other reasons why WebDAV XML will be
rejected by validating parsers ...

Cheers,
Geoff

Received on Thursday, 6 January 2000 18:09:04 UTC