- From: Eric Hanson <eric@aquameta.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 02:02:26 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: FengAndy@aol.com, www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
Julian Reschke (julian.reschke@gmx.de) wrote: > > FengAndy@aol.com wrote: > > > Julian: > > > > I wonder why WebDAV Search is NOT based on XPath/XQuery. > > > > Conceptaully, a WebDAV storage contains metadata (property+folder) and > > data blobs. WebDAV metadata could be easily modeled as XML. Therefore, > > XQuery/XPath could be applied for search. > > > > Any comments? > > Yes. > > The DAV:basicsearch grammar is *meant* to be simple, and it should map > as directly as possible to a simple database table. > > Of course XPath would be a very interesting *additional* query grammar > for SEARCH, and I'm aware of at least two experimental implementations. > But I think it's too early to standardize on that -- let's get the > simpler things done first. This is interesting. While including xpath in the SEARCH request seems straight forward, how would one map the results of the xpath to a PROPFIND response? Also, are any of those experimental implementations publicly available? Pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, Eric
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