- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:32:31 +0200
- To: "Weber, Heiko" <Heiko.Weber@softwareag.com>
- CC: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On 09.06.2010 12:06, Weber, Heiko wrote: > ... > If we allow user defined elements, why do we then want to limit it to be > an element without attributes and sub elements though? > ... In general, it depends on the context. For instance, DAV:property can be just a name (in the PROPFIND request), or contain stuff (in PROPPATCH, and the PROPFIND result). > ... > If all we are interested in is the QName of the element it would make > much more sense to simply put an attribute into the DAV:privilege > element containing the QName of the privilege. Ok, that was modeled > differently historically, so possibly we just have to live with that. > ... WebDAV mostly avoids attributes, and furthermore processing QNames in content is very easy to get wrong; thus sticking with elements IMHO was the right design decision. Best regards, Julian
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