Edgar wrote:

I just put a new WebDAV on http://webdav.ethz.ch/davzip/WebDAV.1.1.0.Zip (115KB) For testing with write access send me a mail for a password. Main new feature is a user interface modeled like FATDocs. Read es.DAVDocs.Text. Rest of documentation needs to be updated. For WebDAV/DeltaV see http://www.webdav.org, http://www.webdav.org/deltav

I vaugely remember this is connected with: * co-operative development - instead of people hacking privately, * formally controlled versions of the iterative development proccess. Both facilities which I have been (repeatedly) advocating. So I though "I must make an effort". Here's the log/trace of the start of my painfull journey - for possible guidance (avoid the same mistakes) of others: 1. Search files of the appropriate partition for reference to "WebDAV" -> mentioned RFC2518 2. Based on URLs of RFCs on hand, fetch http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2518.txt 3. This 203K monster refers to several other RFCs: RFC2119, RFC2291 - which I might fetch, or not. 4. Fortunately, with n-o I can 'Koki-pen-colour-mark' parts of the text as I perhaps read 5 pages a day of the total 92 pages. Those restricted to Windows or Linux must print to paper ? And then how do they find 'other references to "string-x" in the document' ? I can't live without n-o. 5. I see much reference to XML. I've always had negative attitude to over use of HTML. XML seem to be more of the same ? Someone refered to XML as Xmas wrapping for garbage. What do you think about these web-publications where pages are typically of 6 lines, with 4 links to the next layer. No substance - all fluff. So I'll have to read an XML tutor as well ?! 6. reading this:--

Some proposals come from a digital library perspective. These include the Dublin Core [RFC2413] metadata set and the Warwick Framework [WF], a container architecture for different metadata schemas. The literature includes many examples of metadata, including MARC [USMARC], a bibliographic metadata format, and a technical report bibliographic format employed by the Dienst system [RFC1807]. Additionally, the proceedings from the first IEEE Metadata conference describe many community-specific metadata sets.

Participants of the 1996 Metadata II Workshop in Warwick, UK [WF], noted that "new metadata sets will develop as the networked .... ...bla...bla reminded me of the UN: gathering of wind-bags.

Perhaps that's why the US said: "no thank you, we'll do it ourselves" ? Perhaps that's why people just hack away in private ? Perhaps I should have read http://www.webdav.org/ first ? How much effort is to be invested before usage of WebDAV starts paying dividends ? -- Chris Glur.