- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@Rational.Com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:14:33 -0500
- To: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
How about the following: Suppose: - C is a collection - R is a resource - C-MAP is the set of URI's mapped to C - a BIND request causes a binding from "Binding-Name" to resource R to be added to collection C Then immediately following the BIND request, for each "C-URI" in C-MAP, the URI "C-URI/Binding-Name" is mapped to resource R. Then using a facsimile of Yaron's example, if I have a collection whose C-Map is the set {<http://icky/bop>, <http://zizbang/rocky>} (i.e. those two URL's map to this collection), and I perform a BIND that successfully adds to this collection a binding from "blah" to resource R, then following this BIND, the URL <http://icky/bop/blah> maps to R and the URL <http://zizbang/rocky> also maps to R. Cheers, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Yaron Goland Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 8:52 PM To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org Subject: WebDAV Bindings - Issue Yaron.5.3Huh? The first paragraph of section 5.3 reads "Suppose a BIND request causes a binding from "Binding-Name" to resource R to be added to a collection, C. Then if C-MAP is the set of URI's that were mapped to C before the BIND request, then for each URI "C-URI" in C-MAP, the URI "C-URI/Binding-Name" is mapped to resource R following the BIND request." I have a B.S. in CS & EE and got A's in my classes on set theory and I still can't read this paragraph. I tried over and over again and I just couldn't figure it out. If you are going to try to write set theory in English you should at least translate it faithfully using the appropriate terms such as "for all" and "there is an instance of". Personally I would recommend just using an ASCII version of set code notation. Whatever you do, the current paragraph MUST go. It is unfathomable. In fact here is the best translation I have been able to come up with: Imagine I have a collection http://icky/bop which contains http://icky/bop/blah. Imagine I now want to map http://zizbang/rocky to http://icky/bop/rack. According to this language it would seem I would have to create a bind to http://icky/bop/blah/rack. I know this makes no sense but I swear that is what the sentence seemed to mean when I tried to read it four or five times. As such I move that the paragraph be rewritten.
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