- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:23:35 +0100
- To: <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
Hi, this issue is on the relation between DAV:contains and character sets. "5.13 should discuss handling of queries when character set differs. Some text on handling character sets would be helpful." Some observations: a) the character set for the query condition is well known (due to the fact that we're using XML) -- basically the query processor just has a sequence of Unicode characters. b) even text files may be difficult -- the server may not need their encoding -- even if he does, it's unclear how matching will work -- for instance take a file of mime type "text/xml; charset=ISO8859-1". <foo>&</foo> which of the two below will match? 1) <contains>&</contains> 2) <contains>&amp;</contains> (in one case the raw text file is searched, in the other case the XML Infoset after parsing). Conclusion: it's hard to define, and very hard to mandate a specific behaviour. IMHO, the spec should be silent on this issue. Julian [1] <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-latest.html#rf c.issue.JW17/JW24b> -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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