RE: Proposed resolution for issue "score-pseudo-property"

> From: Roger Ford [mailto:roger.ford@oracle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:05 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Proposed resolution for issue "score-pseudo-property"
>
>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Fair enough, but that means the client has to fetch ALL results  in order
to do
> the sort - it's not possible to just fetch the top 10, or whatever.

Actually, it wasn't possible before either. The spec as written does not
define any interaction between DAV:nresults and DAV:score, so if you'd ask
for 10 results, sorted by score, you still couldn't rely on the 10 results
being reported actually *being*  the top 10 results. Of course that's what
people probably would expect, so it seems we need to fix this (the
interaction of limiting the result set and sorting the results) anyway.

Julian

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Received on Thursday, 28 November 2002 09:16:26 UTC