- From: Jim Davis <jrd3@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:52:14 -0700
- To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
At 10:41 AM 6/15/00 -0700, Stephan, Eric G wrote: >My basic question is: Will (does) the DASL protocol define a grammer [that may ] be >used toquery and return parts of a property value if that value is an XML structure? > >It seems to me that the DASL basic grammer is geared to query simple >unstructured property values (e.g. strings, numbers, possibly dates), but not >structured values such as an XML structure. that's correct. We deliberately limited the scope of the basicsearch grammar to exclude structured XML queries because we know that a group in the W3C is pursuing an XML query grammar, and we did not want to compete with or duplicate their work. We very much hope that the eventual outcome of the W3C WG will be a grammar we can simply add to DASL, as a second query grammar. You will note that the DASL design allows for multiple query grammars, so we will have no problem adding the XML query language, when it is available, provided only that it is expressible in XML that is.
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