RE: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?

Fair enough.  I have no problem deferring it to DAV:advancedsearch.

Cheers,
Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:42 AM
To: Clemm, Geoff; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Subject: RE: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?


Well,

that's certainly a *new* requirement that hasn't been mentioned on the DASL
list before.

Is it useful? Yes. Does it belong into DAV:basicsearch? I don't think so.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Clemm, Geoff
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:35 PM
> To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?
>
>
>
> I don't think we have to require that relativeURIs be resolved
> for comparisons (since we can't expect a server to determine
> when two URLs in general are bound to the same resource) but a
> server should be allowed to do so.  The primary need is to be able
> to say "find resources whose xxx:foo property refers to a resource
> whose yyy:bar property has the value zzz" (i.e. to search through
> hrefs the way DAV:expand-property lets you PROPFIND through hrefs.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:12 AM
> To: Clemm, Geoff; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?
>
>
> Correct. Keep in mind that back when DAV:basicsearch was
> designed, there was
> no href-typed DAV: property.
>
> The issue here is to define a meaningful operator -- for instance, at a
> minimum the operator would need to be able to resolve relativeURIs for
> comparisons, right?
>
> Julian
> --
> <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Clemm, Geoff
> > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:06 PM
> > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?
> >
> >
> >
> > The DASL spec doesn't have provisions for searching through
> > a DAV:href reference?  That sounds like an essential piece of
> > functionality
> > for a DAV searching protocol.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Geoff
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:17 AM
> > To: Eric Sedlar; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> > > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Eric Sedlar
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:08 AM
> > > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> > > Subject: Re: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > One property that keeps coming up (also in the Microsoft
> > proposal) is the
> > > resource-ID property, to uniquely identify a resource
> > (generally a GUID).
> > > I'm constantly getting requests from internal groups for this,
> > > and I know a
> > > lot of the JSR-170 people are interested in this for content
> management
> > > apps.
> >
> > As Geoff pointed out, this will be available as part of the
> BIND spec. It
> > could be used on systems even when they don't specifically
> > support the BIND
> > method.
> >
> > > Of course another related requirement is the ability to fetch
> > resources by
> > > ID.  This could be done either by fully utilizing the DAV:
> > namespace, e.g.
> > > DAV:<resourceID> as the URL or by waiting for DASL.
> >
> > First of all, the "unique resource ID" just is a URI. Which URI
> scheme is
> > used is up to the server. So it's completely free to assign an
> > HTTP URI, and
> > this obviously could then be used to fetch the ressource. If the
> > resourceId
> > isn't an HTTP URI, WebDAV doesn't give you any direct mean to
> retrieve it.
> >
> > Re: locating a WebDAV ressource by resourceid -- this won't
> work with the
> > current DASL spec (at least not with the DAV:basicsearch grammar), as I
> > expect the property to have DAV:href content -- something in
> > which you can't
> > search using DASL. Therefore, a REPORT (locate-by-resourceid) may be
> > appropriate...
> >
> > Julian
> >
> > --
> > <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
> >
>

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