- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:45:00 +0200
- To: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@rational.com>, "WebDAV \(E-mail\)" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <JIEGINCHMLABHJBIGKBCOEPPFGAA.julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
Required properties with no value [WAS: workspace property on resources that aren't in workspaces]I think this case is a bit different. For DAV:checked-in and DAV:checked-out the spec is very clear that they aren't *present* for resources that don't happen to be checked-out / checked-in. In *this* case (DAV:workspace), the spec is just silent about the value for a resource that happens to be in no workspace. Furthermore, I don't think a) would work for DAV:checked-in -- clients already check for the *presence* of this property to find out whether a resource is checked-in, and RFC3253 explicitly says this is ok...: "This property appears on a checked-in version-controlled resource, and identifies a version that has the same content and dead properties as the version-controlled resource. This property is removed when the resource is checked out, and then added back (identifying a new version) when the resource is checked back in." -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760 -----Original Message----- From: ietf-dav-versioning-request@w3.org [mailto:ietf-dav-versioning-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Clemm, Geoff Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:27 PM To: WebDAV (E-mail); ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org Subject: Required properties with no value [WAS: workspace property on res ources that aren't in workspaces] This is a good question, and it applies to any "required" property that sometimes has "no value" (e.g. DAV:checked-in and DAV:checked-out). So this question probably should be answered in 2518bis (I'll forward this message to the WebDAV list), but we certainly could take a stab at it in the DeltaV context first. Like Julian, I'd probably be inclined to "b", but don't feel strongly either way. Anyone prefer "a", prefer to decide separately for each property, or prefer that we leave it up to the server? Cheers, Geoff From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de] section 6.2.1 [of rfc 3253] says: "The DAV:workspace property of a workspace resource MUST identify itself. The DAV:workspace property of any other type of resource MUST be the same as the DAV:workspace of its parent collection." It seems to be undefined however what the value is if a resource doesn't *have* a (DAV-compliant) parent collection, for instance the root of my DAV namespace. So what should it be? a) not present b) empty (no href) Julian (leaning to b)
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