Client experiences with enhanced XML

[Tobias Schlitt]

Hi Julian,

On 11/09/2008 11:49 AM Julian Reschke wrote:

> I really recommend that you send questions like this to the webdav
> mailing list -- that's what it's for...

So sorry, did not notice there was a dedicated one. Will remember next time.

> That being said...:

> Tobias Schlitt wrote:

>> Since I'm currently messing around with class 2/3 compliance of my
>> WebDAV server implementation, I was wondering if anyone has experiences
>> with adding custom XML elements to the WebDAV XML.
>>
>> In my special case I need store additional information about locks.
>> Namely the base of a lock and the last request of a client using this
>> lock (for timeout operations). Since my server completely abstracts from
>> the storage layer, I currently store such information in a custom dead
>> property. Re-thinking this, I wonder if it is ok to store such
>> information in the <lockdiscovery> property directly, using a custom
>> namespace.

> Yes, that's totally ok. It's precisely what the WebDAV extensibility
> model is for.

>> Does anyone have experiences in this direction, how clients react if
>> they find such information in the property?
> 
> My experience is that originally some clients tripped over that (because
>  they *did* DTD validation), but have been fixed or phased out since.

Great, that was exactly what I wanted to know.

Thanks a lot,
Toby
-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Med vennlig hilsen / With kind regards

Tobias Schlitt (GPG: 0xC462BC14) eZ Components Developer

ts at ez.no | eZ Systems AS | ez.no

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