Re: property names

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:58:53PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > Also. Note that your above statement is another way to say, "well, we can
> > allow anything, so why not?" It is the trap I was talking about... I've got
> > a reason for requiring it to be a URI, so I'm asking for a "why *should* we
> > allow something else?"
>
> I guess I'm not clear on why you require it to be a URI?

To enable a 1-to-1 correspondence between SVN properties and DAV properties.
DAV props are named with a URI, so if we use a URI then there doesn't have
to be a DAV <-> SVN mapping of prop names.

The URI mechanism also prevents two tools from both using a property called
"name" and getting confused.

Cheers,
-g

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