Moberg Dale wrote:
> Would someone comment on why WEBDAV approaches are not being considered
> in this thread?
Personally, I think WEBDAV and REST are two rather different approaches.
I'm not likely to be working in a WEBDAV-supporting framework in any case.
> A discussion of what I would take to be a RESTful approach to HTTP
> extensions begins at
>
> http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc2518.html#http.methods.for.distributed.authoring
That's RESTful? For what definition of REST?
> Resources are discussed at
> http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc2518.html#data.model.for.resource.propert
> ies
> and collections at
> http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc2518.html#collections.of.web.resources
Collections are indeed interesting - but they seem to me to climb upward
from documents into groups of documents rather than downward from
documents to fragments.
Thanks,
Simon St.Laurent
Retired XML troublemaker
http://simonstl.com/
