- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:59:50 +0100
- To: "Roger Ford" <roger.ford@oracle.com>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
> From: www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Roger Ford > Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 10:49 AM > To: Julian Reschke; www-webdav-dasl@w3.org > Subject: Re: Proposed resolution for issue "score-pseudo-property" > > > > Julian Reschke wrote: > > Proposed resolution: > > > > - remove language about it being a pseudo-property (no need to > DAV:select > > it, do not support ordering on it) > > > > > <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-late > st.html#rfc.issue.score-pseudo-property> > > Losing the ability to order by score would be a major loss - why > is this change needed? Roger, see my previous mail to Martin. The ability to sort is not lost -- it's just that the responsibility to actually perform the sort is moved to the client. I don't see how a client that is smart enough to parse a WebDAV multistatus response body would have problems sorting the top-level elements. For instance, when displaying sort results using an XSLT-based transformation, it can be trivially done by inserting a: <xsl:sort select="D:score" xmlns:D="DAV:" data-type="number" order="..." /> in the right place. Of couse if we really really want to preserve the server-orders-by-score feature, we can do that (we don't necessarily need the pseudo-property for that). Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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