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>>Re crashing sounds, I was thinking about the security implications. Browsing any directory -- filesystem, name service, phone book, employee database, database catalog, etc -- is security-sensitive. That's a server issue. The server sysop decides which resources should be accessible this way and by whom. HTTP and specific servers already have provisions for this, and it has zero effect on the XML used to transmit the contents of the folder, the two are completely independent issues. Re having a style sheet, I could see where that would be useful if you wanted to look at these structures in a web browser, and I'm sure someone will do one, or five people will do five, and they'll all look like an outliner. Aside from that, I don't want to browse these things, I want scripts to be able to walk the structures. How it displays is almost irrelevant in that context. I also got a thoughtful email from Alex Hopmann at Microsoft who's been working on WebDAV, and now I have a comparison between this and what DAV is doing, so I may see how to fit that into our framework, which was one of my goals in doing this work, to see if it really had to be so complicated and to see where it fits in. He says he's going to write a WebDAV tutorial, and *that* would really be something. We need more HOWTOs in this world, fewer specs, more working code, more things to be compatible with. I know that's my usual story, but I still believe it's true! (We're making progress, IE5/Beta 2 changes things quite a bit.) Dave -------------------------------------- http://www.userland.com/directory.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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