8202 2009-11-05 15:58:35 +0000 MEX: definition of GetMetata/Dialect is a bit off 2010-03-17 11:10:02 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WS-Resource Access MetadataExchange FPWD PC Windows XP CLOSED REMIND P2 normal --- 1 dug dug public-ws-resource-access-notifications oldest_to_newest 29340 0 dug 2009-11-05 15:58:35 +0000 For GetMetadata/Dialect the spec says: -- [Body]/mex:GetMetadata/mex:Dialect When this repeating OPTIONAL element is present, the response MUST include only Metadata Sections corresponding to the Dialect specified by the IRI attribute; if the receiver does not have any Metadata Sections of the indicated Dialect, the response MUST include zero Metadata Sections. -- Couple of problems with this: 1 - its not 100% accurate. At the Dialect element level to only talk about how the response needs to only include metadata of this Dialect URI w/o any mention of the @Identifier and @Content attributes is misleading. 2 - this paragraph repeats what the definition of the @URI attribute says 3 - the @URI definition text is better since it ends with: ...the response MUST include zero Metadata Sections for this IRI. the "for this IRI" removes some possible confusion. The current wording above could be interpreted to mean that if there are multiple Dialect elements and any one of them fails to match something then the entire response MUST not include ANY Metadata sections at all - even for other Dialects. Proposal: Modify the above text to be: -- When this repeating OPTIONAL element is present, the response MUST include only Metadata Sections corresponding to the Metadata matching the selection criteria specified. If the receiver does not have any Metadata Sections matching the selection criteria the response MUST include zero Metadata Sections for this Dialect element. -- and leave the definition of each attribute to get more specific. 30133 1 dug 2009-12-15 00:46:11 +0000 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Dec/0048.html "When this repeating OPTIONAL element is present, the response MUST include only Metadata Sections corresponding to metadata specified by the combination of the URI, Identifier and Content attributes of each of the Dialect elements. For each Dialect element if there is no metadata for that combination of attributes then the response MUST NOT include any Metadata Sections for that Dialect element." 30149 2 bob 2009-12-15 22:09:18 +0000 resolved with proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Dec/0048.html