- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:49:00 +0200
- To: "Webdav WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>, <ACL@webdav.org>
> From: acl-admin@webdav.org [mailto:acl-admin@webdav.org]On Behalf Of > Keith Wannamaker > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:26 PM > To: ACL@webdav.org > Subject: RE: [ACL] Searching principal properties proposal > > > ... > > | In WebDAV, properties *may* have an xml:lang attribute. > However, a property > | always has a single value -- you can't have both <foobar > xml:lang="de" /> > | and <foobar xml:lang="en" /> on the same resource. > | > | In theory, the language could be selected based on the request, > but I don't > | think that it would be a good idea to introduce this kind of > semantics for > | properties. > | > | REPORT however doesn't need to use properties to do the reporting, so we > | don't have this restrictrion. > > In this case, since the principal-search-property element can only contain > a single description element, I would think the server could safely use > an xml:lang attribute. Thinking of it: would it be legal for a server to make the content of a computed property depend on additional (language) information from the request? (crossposted to the WebDAV list because it's a general RFC2518 issue). Julian
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