- From: Jim Amsden <jamsden@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:08:25 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
Boy we've got to put our old thinking caps on for these issues! Anyway, as has been pointed out many times in the past, WebDAV does not specify the persistence format or semantics of (at least) dead properties, it only specifies how properties are marshalled on the wire using the protocol. It also does not specify anything but the property name and that its value is some XML element. I think WebDAV has the right to define the PROPPATCH prop, set, multistatus, etc. elements including the property name and any of their associated attributes. But it should not have anything to say about the value of the property other then that it is marshalled in well formed XML. Clients/servers can use whatever they want for attributes or content model for the value element, but must use the attributes (if any) and content specified by the WebDAV protocol for the parent of the value. If there is some conversion from a property value to some underlying storage mechanism, it is the responsibility of the server to figure out what to do with the properties value element, attributes, content model, and all. Servers may have restrictions about what value types the can support, how well they can serialize generic objects in XML, if they use RDF, XML Schema, or DTDs to validate, etc. WebDAV shouldn't need to concern itself with this. Any attributes on DAV defined elements that are not defined in the protocol should be ignored. "Jim Whitehead" <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu> To: "WebDAV WG" Sent by: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org> w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org cc: Subject: Issue: PROP_ATTR 04/10/2001 08:53 PM As mentioned in a previous post, now is the time to start resolving issues on the RFC 2518 issues list. As fate would have it, the first issue on the list is one that has been contentious in the past. Can we come to consensus on it now? Issue: PROP_ATTR Description: What is a WebDAV server required to do with XML attributes other than xml:lang submitted with a PROPPATCH? This affects how well WebDAV will be able to support RDF, since RDF uses attributes extensively. Greg Stein originally raised this issue: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0089.html See also: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0092.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0094.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0095.html
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