RE: draft-reschke-webdav-search-05 - a few questions on the draft

...
>> 2. Ability to specify multiple scope(s) in the from clause
>>
>> The from clause is defined as follows:
>> <!ELEMENT from          (scope) >
>> <!ELEMENT scope         (href, depth) >
>>
>> This definition seems to preclude searching in multiple scopes, I was
>> wondering if there is a mechanis by which I can specify multiple scopes.
>> If currently none exist, is there a plan to support it in the future?

> Not yet. How do others feel about it? I guess the original authors wanted
to
> keep DAV:basicsearch as simple as possible, thus the restriction to a
single
> scope.

Currently I don't see a need for multiple scopes.

Regards,
Martin



-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
Sent: Samstag, 27. September 2003 10:33
To: Prakash Yamuna
Cc: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
Subject: RE: draft-reschke-webdav-search-05 - a few questions on the
draft



> From: Prakash Yamuna [mailto:prakash.yamuna@covigna.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:05 PM
> To: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
> Subject: draft-reschke-webdav-search-05 - a few questions on the draft
>
>
> Hello Julian,
>
>  I had a couple of questions on the current draft of DASL and was hoping
> you could help me out. If you believe I need to redirect these
> questions, I would appreciate if you can provide me the relevant contact
> information.

I think the best way is to send this kind of feedback/questions to the DASL
mailing list (<:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Archives/Public/www-webdav-dasl/>), which I'm
cc'ing.

> 1.  Ability to specify multiple properties in the select clause
>
> The select clause is defined as follows:
> <!ELEMENT select        (allprop | prop) >
>
> This definition does not seem to support multiple properties from being
> retrieved.

It does. <prop> is just inherited from RFC2518
(<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2518.html#ELEMENT_prop>). It allows to
supply multiple property elements, such as

<prop xmlns="DAV:"><getcontenttype/><getcontentlength/></prop>

> I was wondering if there is a mechanism by which I can specify multiple
> properties (but not all properties).
> If currently none exist, is there a plan to support it in the future?
>
> 2. Ability to specify multiple scope(s) in the from clause
>
> The from clause is defined as follows:
> <!ELEMENT from          (scope) >
> <!ELEMENT scope         (href, depth) >
>
> This definition seems to preclude searching in multiple scopes, I was
> wondering if there is a mechanis by which I can specify multiple scopes.
> If currently none exist, is there a plan to support it in the future?

Not yet. How do others feel about it? I guess the original authors wanted to
keep DAV:basicsearch as simple as possible, thus the restriction to a single
scope.

> 3. I was wondering if there is a DOCTYPE for the DASL dtd (either a
> PUBLIC or SYSTEM).

No. DTDs in WebDAV specs aren't used for validation (in fact, they can't be
used for validation). The SEARCH spec probably should clarify the role of
the DTD fragments similar to what the ordering spec already does:

<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-webdav-ordering-protocol-10.htm
l#rfc.section.1>


Hope this helps,

Julian

--
<green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760