- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 05:55:31 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Bernard Desruisseaux <bernard.desruisseaux@oracle.com>, webdav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Bernard & I came up with more questions yesterday:
Can there be untyped arrays? How would I show an array of XML elements?
E.g. would this be valid?
<supportedliveproperties xsi:type="soap-enc:Array">
<supportedliveproperty><getetag/></supportedliveproperty>
<supportedliveproperty><resourcetype/></supportedliveproperty>
...
</supportedliveproperties>
Are arrays assumed to be ordered or unordered? Would it be legal for a
server to reorder array values when returning them?
Lisa
On Sep 22, 2004, at 6:52 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>> ...
>> Only a matter of setting expectations -- what this spec does provide,
>> what it doesn't provide. Human-readable overview text to provide
>> context for how to consider this work.
>
> OK, see
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-property-
> datatypes-latest.html#rfc.issue.1_clarify_scope>:
>
> The following potential datatyping related features were
> deliberately
> considered out of scope:
>
> o getting "schema" information for classes of resources (set of
> "required" properties, their types, display information),
>
> o definition of a set of mandatory property types,
>
> o discovery of supported property types,
>
> o extensions to PROPPATCH that would allow updates to parts of a
> (structured) property.
>
> >...
>> Depends on how readable you want the spec to be. I would consider
>> that information very helpful and clarifying.
>
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-property-
> datatypes-latest.html#rfc.issue.7_discovery>:
>
> Servers not aware of datatype handling either drop the "xsi:type"
> attribute, or persist it along with the property value. However,
> they will never indicate successful parsing of the data type by
> returning back the type in the response to PROPPATCH. Thus, clients
> can supply type information without having to poll for server
> support
> in advance.
>
>
> Feedback appreciated,
>
> Julian
>
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Received on Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:55:57 UTC