RE: QSD: DAV:opdesc

> From: www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jim Davis
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 6:51 PM
> To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> Subject: RE: QSD: DAV:opdesc
>
>
>
> At 03:54 PM 7/8/2002 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> >  consider...in addition to operators and parameters, the opdesc
> element also
> >carries a human-readable description of the operator?
> >
> >On the other hand, it's certainly possible that the "new"
> operator resides
> >in a namespace for which additional human-readable documention can be
> >accessed (for instance a namespace document that can be
> retrieved using GET
> >>from a HTTP based namespace...)
>
> I don't object to this, if you want to add it, as long as it is optional.
>
> Are we talking about a natural language string?  If so, perhaps
> the element
> should be repeatable, to allow for multiple languages?

As in other WebDAV specs (ACL), this can be done (and labelled) according
the Accept-Language header...

> Or maybe there should be a way to express a URI that leads to
> documentation?

OK, we now have three options :-)

1) return description with the Query Schema
2) return *pointer* to description with the Query Schema
3) use namespace name of query operator as pointer to description

Received on Monday, 8 July 2002 13:05:32 UTC