RE: Relationship between scopes and version histories

Very good point, Elias.

Right now, a client can explicitly de-select versions by specifying
something like

	<not xmlns="DAV:"><is-defined><version-name /></is-defined></not>

Similarily, version histories can be excluded using

	<not xmlns="DAV:"><is-defined><version-set /></is-defined></not>

Would that suffice?

In general, I'd prefer not to change the semantics of the scope itself. If a
version happens to be in the namespace scope, the search should apply to it
as well...


Julian

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Elias Sinderson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:39 PM
> To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Relationship between scopes and version histories
>
>
>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> >A relatively frequent use case for servers that both support
> versioning and
> >DASL seems to have searches that include all versions of the resources in
> >scope. In general, the version URIs may not be in the scope of the query.
> >
> Ahh, I'd not thought of this use case, thanks for recognizing this and
> pointing it out.
>
> >Therefore, I'd like to extend the DAV:scope to specify inclusion of
> >versions. This would be an optional extension -- however, a
> server that does
> >not support his feature should reject the request (so that the
> client would
> >know that the request could not be satisfied).
> >
> >Example:
> >
> >    <d:from xmlns:d="DAV:">
> >      <d:scope>
> >        <d:href>/container1/</d:href>
> >        <d:depth>infinity</d:depth>
> >        <d:include-versions />
> >      </d:scope>
> >    </d:from>
> >
> This extension seems reasonable to me. One question I have is whether
> some servers implementation of versioning would result in the version
> URIs being in the scope of the search unintentionally? If so, then it
> may also be reasonable to add <d:exclude-versions/> as well. I'd be a
> little miffed if my seemingly well-formed query returned matches on all
> the version histories of a resource and I was unable to turn it
> off easily.
>
> Without knowledge of how a given server implements versioning, it will
> be difficult for a client to know how to modify a query such that it
> excludes previous versions of resources. Further, since different
> servers will implement versioning differently, clients may end up using
> special cases for different servers - something to be avoided. An
> alternate approach to defining <d:exclude-versions/> would be to specify
> that in the absence of <d:include-versions/>, the default behavior MUST
> exclude previous versions of resources from the scope of a query.
>
>
> Elias
>

Received on Wednesday, 5 February 2003 12:50:53 UTC