Re: gte vs. numerical property values

Comments inlined:

Julian Reschke wrote:
> [...] OK, how about *adding* an alternative to DAV:literal? Therfore:
> 
> DAV:literal: untyped, server can compare according to it's internal
> knowledge of types (with the clarification above)
> DAV:typed-literal: typed according to the xsi:type attribute -- "new"
> servers can implement this without affecting any existing code.

This is a good idea, even if only an internet draft, as it preserves the 
semantics of existing implementations while extending the functionality 
of the spec.

> We'll need to think abut discovery of this feature, though. It might be
> possible to do this with QSD (in the meantime, are there any QSD
> implementations except ours?)

QSD has been bubbling up on the Catacomb todo list for months now, 
hopefully we'll be able implement it before the new year. I would 
strongly favor keeping all discovery mechanisms within the scope of QSD 
as it will minimize the number of requests necessary to determine the 
capabilities/features that a given server implements.


Elias

Received on Monday, 25 November 2002 11:47:54 UTC