Re: property values are kind of broken

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:01:12PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > Property values in DAV are "well-formed XML fragments." So arbitrary data
> > will need to be encoded.
>
> Can we make encoding them part of the ra_dav library's job, so that
> callers never know this happens? After all, they shouldn't have to
> know things about how the network layer is transmitting prop data.

Oh, geez. Absolutely.

They'll get passed into libsvn_ra_* in "native" form. The RA library
[selected] will encode as necessary.

I imagine that I'd just blindly encode all prop values in base64 using the
routines OtherGreg ( :-) ) is writing.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/