- From: Geoffrey M. Clemm <gclemm@tantalum.atria.com>
- Date: 1998年10月22日 00:07:01 -0400
- To: mjager@microsoft.com
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Message-Id: <9810220407.AA20909@tantalum>
We have two ways of sending structured data: MIME and XML. One could easily imagine defining an XML DTD that allowed you to bundle both the properties and the body of a WebDAV resource into a single XML construct. Even further, one can equally easily imagine bundling an entire (nested) collection (with all the properties) into a single XML construct as well. Once such a WebDAV DTD was defined, one can equally easily imagine defining (at least the outer layers of) a mapping of this DTD into the appropriate MIME constructs (I assume the widespread existence of MIME knowledgable tools makes a pure XML-only scheme a non-starter?). Cheers, Geoff From: Marcus Jager <mjager@microsoft.com> Has anyone given any thought to how WebDAV resources will be bundled into a MIME message? What I am looking for is a standard way of collecting both the properties and body of a resource into a single MIME message. As more and more interesting data is put into the properties of a resource, it becomes quite important truck them around as a single unit. Ideally this MIME type could be requested in a GET and the server will provide the complete MIME message. This removes several round trips needed and will make it much more standard since there are far fewer server than clients. Server could also accept this in a PUT to do an atomic body and property update without needing locks. Also, this could form the starting point for inter-server communications. Marcus.
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