- From: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 07:44:02 PDT
- To: "Babich, Alan" <ABabich@filenet.com>
- Cc: "'Saveen Reddy (Exchange)'" <saveenr@Exchange.Microsoft.com>, "'www-webdav-dasl@w3.org'" <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>, "Babich, Alan" <ABabich@felix.filenet.com>, sembower@wrc.xerox.com
It's been a goal of WebDAV and of DASL to keep clients as simple as possible. 1.4 of the DASL specification says "It is an objective of DASL to minimize the complexity of clients . . ." This is the major argument, I think, for keeping type checking and type conversions on the server side and keeping type-specific elements out of the query grammar. Any client that wants to do this work is, of course, free to; but let's not force clients to do it just in order to construct a query. We also provide for alternative query grammars to be carried over DASL, so it is possible for someone to define another grammar that uses type-specific comparison operators. But let's not make this part of the simplesearch grammar that is required to be supported for compliance with DASL. --Judy Name: Judith A. Slein E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 Fax: (716) 422-2938 MailStop: 105-50C Web Site: http://www.nde.wrc.xerox.com/users/Slein/slein.htm
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