- From: Ilya Kirnos <ilya.kirnos@oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:31:59 -0800
- To: afreeman@lightsurf.com
- CC: "Pill, Juergen" <Juergen.Pill@softwareag.com>, "'Alan Kent'" <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>, WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
That's what I would think as well... Both properties and content searchability would be good. Adam Freeman wrote: > Is that a rhetorical question? I would think anybody with a searchable > website would want to use DASL... > > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Pill, Juergen > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:43 AM > To: 'Alan Kent'; WebDAV > Subject: RE: DASL - who wants to use it? (requirements spec?) > > Hello Alan, > > You mentioned it, DASL define a mini query language to query property mostly > and "server-defined" query languages, that can do want they want (the only > thing those languages need is clients supporting those languages). > > I have the feeling, that also the mini query language should be extendable > to define additional content operators. A query covering both content and > properties is required to my understanding (again the question of available > clients). > > An extendable mini query language would reduce the need to define an own > "server-defined" query language and you get both content and property query > in a more "standard" way. > > Best regards, > > juergen pill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Kent [mailto:ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 09.25 AM > To: WebDAV > Subject: DASL - who wants to use it? (requirements spec?) > > 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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