- From: Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:25:23 +1100
- To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
I remember the recent question about DASL (was it this list?). I was wondering if part of the problem with DASL is the question of whether it addresses a need, or addresses it appropriately. We have a text searching engine that can do lots of funky searches etc. on the content of resources using fields (lets say dublin core elements). But this would be quite a different thing to querying on WebDAV properties. Hence I was interested to understand better the goal of DASL. Is it to be able to query WebDAV properities (and nothing else). Or was it intended to be broader and cover the harder problem of querying content as well? Just curious to understand the intended scope better before I jump in. I found a reference to a dasl requirements document (I have not looked it up yet). But is it still valid? I ask only because if its been a while and if no one has implemented it, is it because they have been busy, or because DASL has missed the mark in some way? Alan ps: I noticed that DASL seems to allow other queries to be plugged in. While this is good, for the above I am not after an answer like "you can do anything you like". I am more interested in "what do people like/want?" pps: I also noticed that the "basic" query langauge looked rather long when you got down to it - orderby, contains, like, three value logic... Convienient if you have an SQL engine around I guess.
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