- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:25:46 +0200
- To: "Webdav WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Hi, in WebDAV, the owner of a lock can be reported using the DAV:owner element (<http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2518.html#ELEMENT_owner>): <quote> The owner XML element provides information sufficient for either directly contacting a principal (such as a telephone number or Email URI), or for discovering the principal (such as the URL of a homepage) who owns a lock. <!ELEMENT owner ANY> </quote> It is documented to have ANY content, while the examples (for instance, <http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2518.html#rfc.section.8.10.8>) use an embedded DAV:href element: <quote> <D:lockdiscovery> <D:activelock> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> <D:lockscope><D:exclusive/></D:lockscope> <D:depth>Infinity</D:depth> <D:owner> <D:href> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/contact.html </D:href> </D:owner> <D:timeout>Second-604800</D:timeout> <D:locktoken> <D:href> opaquelocktoken:e71d4fae-5dec-22d6-fea5-00a0c91e6be4 </D:href> </D:locktoken> </D:activelock> </D:lockdiscovery> </quote> While this isn't a problem per se, it seems to have created a situation where implementors are unsure how to set and process the owner element. For instance, the WebDAV library used in Microsoft Office 2000 seems to compare the (text) contents of the owner element (as returned in the response) with the value it has sent. If they don't match, it assumes that the LOCK operation has failed and reports that the document was opened as "read only" (which I'd say is clearly a bug). I think to "fix" this, we whould collect more implementation data. Maybe this is a case where we could take advantage of XLink (<http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/>)...: <D:owner> <D:href xlink:role="DAV:principal-homepage" DAV:href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/contact.html"> Jim Whitehead </D:href> <D:href xlink:role="DAV:principal-email" DAV:href="mailto:ejw@foobar.com"> Jim Whitehead </D:href> <D:href xlink:role="DAV:principal-resource" DAV:href="/users/ejw"> Jim Whitehead </D:href> </D:owner> or a simpler version that probably wouldn't "break" Office: <D:owner xlink:role="DAV:principal-resource" DAV:href="/users/ejw"> Jim Whitehead </D:owner> Julian
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