- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:15:58 +0100
- To: "Chris Knight" <Christopher.D.Knight@nasa.gov>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Chris Knight > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:44 PM > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: PROPFIND returning *more* than expected, and other questions > > > > I'd like to discuss these questions (hopefully not at length, they > should be fairly easy to answer) at the Interim WG meeting...But I > thought I'd throw out the e-mail so people could ponder it first. > > I'm working on a project that is providing rich searching capabilities > to DAV properties. One feature we'd like to provide is keyword searching Did you consider a) a new DASL grammar or b) a new REPORT? > behaviors for properties. Say, for example, you requested <foo:author> > and the resource had <foo:author>, <foo:author_name>, and <foo:authors> > the server's response would contain all of these properties. If you do this upon PROPFIND/prop, that's illegal. > It appears that clients should expect to get fewer properties than they > request and I would assume they'd accept more but I'd like to get the > opinion of the community to ensure that we aren't doing something to > break the protocol. Upon PROPFIND/prop, clients should expect to get entries for all properties that were requested (not more, not less), possibly with non-200 status codes (such as 404 for property not found). > Second question, can a server respond to a PROPFIND for a particular > property with multiple values for that property? No. A property has exactly one value. > Thirdly, if a property has a rich XML structure as it's value, we'd like > to return any matching XML tag in that structure. (So if the > <foo:authors> tag contained <foo:author>Chris</foo:author> > <foo:author>David</foo:author> it would return all the <foo:authors> and > each of the <foo:author> values separately.) I don't understand what this is good for. It's certainly not-compliant behaviour. > Anyways, see many of you next Monday! See you! -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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