RE: DAV:getlastmodified of collections

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Geoffrey M Clemm
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:11 PM
> To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
> Subject: RE: DAV:getlastmodified of collections
>
>
>
> "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote on 09/05/2003 06:08:11 PM:
> > But then we're missing the case of VERSION-CONTROL on a versionable but
> not
> > yet version-controlled resource that lives inside a versioned collection
> (in
> > which case I'd say the state of the parent collection *does* change).
>
> I suggest we keep the semantics very simple, and say that
DAV:getlastmodified
> is changed only by adding a binding, removing a binding, or changing a
binding
> to new resource.  Putting an existing resource under version control does
> none of these things, so it should not result in an update to
> DAV:getlastmodified.
>
> Note that in general the "version-controlled state" of a collection will
be
> different from the "state" of a collection, i.e. adding and removing a
binding
> to a non-version-controlled resource does not change the
version-controlled
> state of a collection, but does change the state of the collection.

This seems to imply that the version-controlled state is not a subset of the
state, or more precisely, that you can modify the version-controlled state
without changing the state. This IMHO seems to be a weird way to define the
state of a collection.

Julian

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