I'm not aware of XML providing a mechanism for defining multiple bindings
to the same resource, so I don't see how an XML database implementation
bears on this discussion.
Cheers,
Geoff
Cullen wrote on 12/14/2005 07:20:12 PM:
>
> On 12/14/05 2:17 PM, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> >>
> >> One could imagine the lock applying to the resource and to all its
> >> bindings, considering the bindings to be part of the state of the
> >> resource. If I recall, I think this is the model I'd always assumed
> >
> > Well, I'm not aware of a single server that supports multiple bindings
> > to one resource, but which considers bindings as part of the state of
> > the resource. Do you?
>
> I was just sort of thinking, if one implemented a server using a XML
> database, and one used the database locks to implement the DAV LOCK, it
> seems like you would end up with the lock locking the resource not the
URI.
> Perhaps that would just not be a legal way to implement it. I'm not
making
> an argument one way or another, I was just sort of pondering this and
> wondering if my assumption that using the database lock to implement
LOCK
> would result in this model.
>