RE: expand-property report, exapnding version-controlled-binding- set ?

> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The rfc3253 says:
> > >
> > >    Many property values are defined as a DAV:href, or a set
> of DAV:href
> > >    elements.  The DAV:expand-property report provides a mechanism for
> > >    retrieving in one request the properties from the resources
> > >    identified by those DAV:href elements.  ...
> > >
> > > Since DAV:version-controlled-binding-set is list of
> > > (binding-name, version-history)
> > > elements and not list of hrefs it seems to me that it is not
> possible to
> > > further expand this property.  For example the next request tries
> > > to expand
> > > version-controlled-binding-set:
> > >
> > >      REPORT /foo.html HTTP/1.1
> > >      Host: www.webdav.org
> > >      Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
> > >      Content-Length: xxxx
> > >
> > >      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> > >      <D:expand-property xmlns:D="DAV:">
> > >        <D:property name="version-controlled-binding-set">
> > >          <D:property name="version-history">
> > >            <D:property name="creator-displayname"/>
> > >          </D:property>
> > >        </D:property>
> > >      </D:expand-property>
> > >
> > > But, since members of version-controlled-binding-set are not
> > > href's (and they
> > > are not resources) we can not further expand this property.
> > >
> > > Is this correct ?
> >
> > The embedded version-history element has the href-format, so
> you should be
> > able to do:
> >
> >      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> >      <D:expand-property xmlns:D="DAV:">
> >        <D:property name="version-controlled-binding-set">
> >          <D:property name="creator-displayname"/>
> >        </D:property>
> >      </D:expand-property>
> >
> > (if what you're after is the DAV:creator-displayname of the version
> > history).
>
> version-controlled-binding-set members are version-controlled-binding's
> and version-controlled-binding is even not a resource so we can not
> ask it for its properties (creator-displayname is this case).

As you said, version-controlled-bindings consists of binding-name
version-history. version-history has href format, so you *can* expand that
if you want to.

> Which part of the rfc3253 says that we should use version-history part
> of a version-controlled-binding element for property expansion ?

None. It depends on whose property you want. You can't get the properties of
the binding name (it's not a resource), but you *can* get the properties of
the version history.

> What if version-controlled-binding element (or any other) would have
> two href members, which one should be used for expand-property report ?

Both.