RE: More on ordered collections

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Lisa Dusseault
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:29 AM
> To: 'Julian Reschke'; 'Clemm, Geoff'; 'Webdav WG'
> Subject: RE: More on ordered collections
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> I agree there's little we can do about the safe-save algorithms that use
> MOVE, sadly.  In fact, the correctest behavior for MOVE is probably, as
> with version histories, to retain the source resource's ordering
> position if a destination is overwritten.
>
> However, if a destination is not being overwritten, then shouldn't the
> MOVE (the rename) preserve ordering?

From a client's point of view: almost certainly.

The spec currently lets this depend on whether the server implements this as
a single rename or a bind/unbind (in which a new binding is created and the
previous is removed). Before I add some language about this, I'd like to get
some more additional opinions.

Julian

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Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2003 03:05:56 UTC