RE: DASL single-character wildcard

Lisa,

the change has been made six months ago, and shipping SAP (and I assume
Tamino/Slide code) is already conforming to it. In this case I think you're
just too late.

Sorry,

Julian

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Lisa Dusseault
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:14 PM
> To: 'Julian Reschke'; www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> Subject: RE: DASL single-character wildcard
>
>
>
> Thanks for the informative link.  I already knew that the
> character had been
> changed in DASL, and I already knew that SQL uses '_'.  How about
> reopening
> the issue, however?  I must not have been paying attention when
> it changed,
> because Xythos has long implemented the '?' character which was in older
> versions of DASL, so the change has a negative effect for us.  Is there
> anybody else who cares either way?
>
> Lisa
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:27 AM
> > To: Lisa Dusseault; www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: DASL single-character wildcard
> >
> >
> > > From: www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org
> > > [mailto:www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Lisa Dusseault
> > > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:00 AM
> > > To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> > > Subject: DASL single-character wildcard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The DASL specification that Xythos implemented used a '?' as a
> > > single-character wildcard match.  The -04 specification uses a '_'
> > > instead.
> >
> > The issue resolution is documented at:
> >
> http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-03.ht
ml#rfc.iss
ue.like-exactlyone

> That could be a difficult switch to make since we have
> customers/clients already using the older DASL syntax.
>
> Is there a compelling reason to change the character used?

Julian

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