Fwd: DASL

>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:24:18 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Niket Patwardhan <npatward@verity.com>
>To: npatward@miracle.verity.com
>Subject: DASL
>
But it is not a client problem if the property contains values in multiple
languages. It should be a 5xx error.

Also, if you think of the text as another property of the document, you can
see that there is no reason why a property should not have multiple
languages in it. (Think Canada, or the EEC - they are required to produce
documents in multiple languages!)

>At 10:28 AM 6/30/98 PDT, John Stracke wrote:
>>Jim Davis wrote:
>>
>>> If the property values are stored in Danish, you get the Danish
>>> sort, no matter what the Content-Language is.
>>
>>Excuse me, I know this is an ugly question, but I really don't know the
>answer:
>>suppose some properties are in Danish and some are in Japanese?
>
>If all values of property foo are in Danish, and all values of prop bar are
>in Nihongo, no problem.  But if one property contains values in multiple
>languages, this is a problem.  We can't meaningfully compare values using
>the underlying languages, as such comparisons are undefined.  Nor will it
>help to simply declare one language in the Content-Language header.
>
>This is why the DASL charter excludes such cross-language comparisons.
>
>I suppose this means we need to define the error code to be returned should
>this condition arise.  I suppose 400 (Bad Request) should be used, unless
>there's need for a more specific code.
>

Received on Thursday, 16 September 1999 02:49:09 UTC