- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:22:02 +0100
- To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>, "Alan Kent" <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>, "WebDAV" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Lisa Dusseault > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:38 PM > To: Alan Kent; WebDAV > Subject: RE: DASL - who wants to use it? (requirements spec?) > > > Not sure if anybody ever answered your basic question about whether DASL > addresses content querying. It does. > > Here is the query fragment that would search the body of a document: > <D:where> > <D:contains>Peter Forsberg</D:contains> > </D:where> > > This is similar to the property queries, but it does not name a property, > therefore it's the content that must be searched for the string. > > Note that it's possible to do exact string matching ("Peter Forsberg") and > string-by-string matching ("Peter" and "Forsberg", not necessarily > together). Section 5.13.1 of DASL shows both examples. > > Lisa Lisa, which version are you referring to? According to [1], - "contains" is an optional operator (so cou can't rely on it being supported) - the method of matching is only loosely defined; in particular you can't rely on it doing "exact" matching. [1] <http://www.webdav.org/dasl/protocol/draft-dasl-protocol-00.html>
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