Network Working Group J. F. Reschke Internet Draft greenbytes Expires: August 2003 S. Reddy Oracle J. Davis Intelligent Markets A. Babich Filenet February 2003 WebDAV SEARCH draft-reschke-webdav-search-03 Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress". The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire in August 2003. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This document specifies a set of methods, headers, properties and content-types composing WebDAV SEARCH, an application of the HTTP/1.1 protocol to efficiently search for DAV resources based upon a set of Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 1] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 client-supplied criteria. Distribution of this document is unlimited. Please send comments to the Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) DASL mailing list at www-webdav-dasl@w3.org, which may be joined by sending a message with subject "subscribe" to www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org. Discussions of the WebDAV DASL mailing list are archived at URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Archives/Public/www-webdav-dasl/. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 2] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 Table of Contents Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1 DASL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2 Relationship to DAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3 Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4 Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.5 An Overview of DASL at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2 The SEARCH Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2 The Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.1 The Request-URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.2 The Request Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3 The DAV:searchrequest XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.4 The Successful 207 (Multistatus) Response . . . . . . . 9 2.4.1 Extending the PROPFIND Response . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.4.2 Example: A Simple Request and Response . . . . . . . 10 2.4.3 Example: Result Set Truncation . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.5 Unsuccessful Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.6 Invalid Scopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.6.1 Indicating an Invalid Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.6.2 Example of an Invalid Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 Discovery of Supported Query Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.1 The OPTIONS Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.2 The DASL Response Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3 DAV:supported-query-grammar-set (protected) . . . . . . 15 3.4 Example: Grammar Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4 Query Schema Discovery: QSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.1 Additional SEARCH semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.1.1 Example of query schema discovery . . . . . . . . . 19 5 The DAV:basicsearch Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.2 The DAV:basicsearch DTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.2.1 Example Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5.3 DAV:select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.4 DAV:from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.4.1 Relationship to the Request-URI . . . . . . . . . . 24 5.4.2 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5.5 DAV:where . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5.5.1 Use of Three-Valued Logic in Queries . . . . . . . . 24 5.5.2 Handling Optional operators . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5.5.3 Treatment of NULL Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.5.4 Treatment of properties with mixed/element content . 25 5.5.5 Example: Testing for Equality . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.5.6 Example: Relative Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.6 DAV:orderby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 3] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.6.1 Comparing Natural Language Strings . . . . . . . . . 27 5.6.2 Example of Sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5.7 Boolean Operators: DAV:and, DAV:or, and DAV:not . . . . 27 5.8 DAV:eq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.9 DAV:lt, DAV:lte, DAV:gt, DAV:gte . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.10 DAV:literal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.11 DAV:typed-literal (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.11 Example for typed numerical comparison . . . . . . . . 29 5.13 DAV:is-collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.13.1 Example of DAV:is-collection . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.14 DAV:is-defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.15 DAV:like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.15.1 Syntax for the Literal Pattern . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.15.2 Example of DAV:like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.16 DAV:contains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 5.16.1 Result scoring (DAV:score element) . . . . . . . . 32 5.16.2 Ordering by score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 5.16.3 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 5.17 Limiting the result set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 5.17.1 Relationship to result ordering . . . . . . . . . . 34 5.18 The "caseless" XML attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 5.19 Query schema for DAV:basicsearch . . . . . . . . . . . 35 5.19.1 DTD for DAV:basicsearch QSD . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 5.19.2 DAV:propdesc Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 5.19.2.1 DAV:any-other-property . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5.19.3 The DAV:datatype Property Description . . . . . . . 36 5.19.4 The DAV:searchable Property Description . . . . . . 37 5.19.5 The DAV:selectable Property Description . . . . . . 37 5.19.6 The DAV:sortable Property Description . . . . . . . 37 5.19.7 The DAV:caseless Property Description . . . . . . . 38 5.19.8 The DAV:operators XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . 38 5.19.9 Example of Query Schema for DAV:basicsearch . . . . 38 6 Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 7 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 8 Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 9 Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 10 IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 11 Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 12 Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 13 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Author's Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 A Three-Valued Logic in DAV:basicsearch . . . . . . . . . . . 51 B Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 B.1 From draft-davis-dasl-protocol-xxx . . . . . . . . . . . 53 B.2 since start of draft-reschke-webdav-search . . . . . . . 54 B.3 since draft-reschke-webdav-search-00 . . . . . . . . . . 56 Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 4] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 B.4 since draft-reschke-webdav-search-01 . . . . . . . . . . 56 B.5 since draft-reschke-webdav-search-02 . . . . . . . . . . 56 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 5] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 1 Introduction 1.1 DASL This document defines WebDAV SEARCH, an application of HTTP/1.1 forming a lightweight search protocol to transport queries and result sets and allows clients to make use of server-side search facilities. It is based on the expired draft for WebDAV DASL [DASL]. [DASLREQ] describes the motivation for DASL. DASL will minimize the complexity of clients so as to facilitate widespread deployment of applications capable of utilizing the DASL search mechanisms. DASL consists of: o the SEARCH method, o the DASL response header, o the DAV:searchrequest XML element, o the DAV:queryschema property, o the DAV:basicsearch XML element and query grammar, and o the DAV:basicsearchschema XML element. For WebDAV-compliant servers, it also defines a new live property DAV:supported-query-grammar-set. 1.2 Relationship to DAV DASL relies on the resource and property model defined by [RFC2518]. DASL does not alter this model. Instead, DASL allows clients to access DAV-modeled resources through server-side search. 1.3 Terms This draft uses the terms defined in [RFC2616], [RFC2518], and [DASLREQ]. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 6] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 1.4 Notational Conventions The augmented BNF used by this document to describe protocol elements is exactly the same as the one described in Section 2.1 of [RFC2616]. Because this augmented BNF uses the basic production rules provided in Section 2.2 of [RFC2616], those rules apply to this document as well. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT" "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. When an XML element type in the "DAV:" namespace is referenced in this document outside of the context of an XML fragment, the string "DAV:" will be prefixed to the element type. Note that this draft currently defines elements and properties in the WebDAV namespace "DAV:", which it shouldn't do as it isn't a work item of the WebDAV working group. The reason for this is the desire for some kind of backward compatibility to the expired DASL drafts and the assumption that the draft may become an official RFC submission of the WebDAV working group at a later point of time. Similarily, when an XML element type in the namespace "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" is referenced in this document outside of the context of an XML fragment, the string "xs:" will be prefixed to the element type. 1.5 An Overview of DASL at Work One can express the basic usage of DASL in the following steps: o The client constructs a query using the DAV:basicsearch grammar. o The client invokes the SEARCH method on a resource that will perform the search (the search arbiter) and includes a text/xml or application/xml request entity that contains the query. o The search arbiter performs the query. o The search arbiter sends the results of the query back to the client in the response. The server MUST send an entity that matches the [RFC2518] PROPFIND response. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 7] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 2 The SEARCH Method 2.1 Overview The client invokes the SEARCH method to initiate a server-side search. The body of the request defines the query. The server MUST emit an entity matching the [RFC2518] PROPFIND response. The SEARCH method plays the role of transport mechanism for the query and the result set. It does not define the semantics of the query. The type of the query defines the semantics. 2.2 The Request The client invokes the SEARCH method on the resource named by the Request-URI. 2.2.1 The Request-URI The Request-URI identifies the search arbiter. Any HTTP resource may function as search arbiter. It is not a new type of resource (in the sense of DAV:resourcetype as defined in [RFC2518]), nor does it have to be a WebDAV-compliant resource. The SEARCH method defines no relationship between the arbiter and the scope of the search, rather the particular query grammar used in the query defines the relationship. For example, the FOO query grammar may force the request-URI to correspond exactly to the search scope. 2.2.2 The Request Body The server MUST process a text/xml or application/xml request body, and MAY process request bodies in other formats. See [RFC3023] for guidance on packaging XML in requests. If the client sends a text/xml or application/xml body, it MUST include the DAV:searchrequest XML element. The DAV:searchrequest XML element identifies the query grammar, defines the criteria, the result record, and any other details needed to perform the search. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 8] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 2.3 The DAV:searchrequest XML Element The DAV:searchrequest XML element contains a single XML element that defines the query. The name of the query element defines the type of the query. The value of that element defines the query itself. 2.4 The Successful 207 (Multistatus) Response If the server returns 207 (Multistatus), then the search proceeded successfully and the response MUST match that of a PROPFIND. The results of this method SHOULD NOT be cached. There MUST be one DAV:response for each resource that matched the search criteria. For each such response, the DAV:href element contains the URI of the resource, and the response MUST include a DAV:propstat element. Note that for each matching resource found there may be multiple URIs within the search scope mapped to it. In this case, a server SHOULD report all of these URIs. Clients can use the live property DAV:resource-id defined in [BIND] to identify possible duplicates. In addition, the server MAY include DAV:response items in the reply where the DAV:href element contains a URI that is not a matching resource, e.g. that of a scope or the query arbiter. Each such response item MUST NOT contain a DAV:propstat element, and MUST contain a DAV:status element (unless no property was selected). 2.4.1 Extending the PROPFIND Response A response MAY include more information than PROPFIND defines so long as the extra information does not invalidate the PROPFIND response. Query grammars SHOULD define how the response matches the PROPFIND response. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 9] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 2.4.2 Example: A Simple Request and Response This example demonstrates the request and response framework. The following XML document shows a simple (hypothetical) natural language query. The name of the query element is natural-language-query in the XML namespace "http://example.com/foo". The actual query is "Find the locations of good Thai restaurants in Los Angeles". For this hypothetical query, the arbiter returns two properties for each selected resource. >> Request: SEARCH / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: xxx Find the locations of good Thai restaurants in Los Angeles >> Response: HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxx http://siamiam.test/ 259 W. Hollywood 4 Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 10] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 2.4.3 Example: Result Set Truncation A server MAY limit the number of resources in a reply, for example to limit the amount of resources expended in processing a query. If it does so, the reply MUST use status code 207, return a DAV:multistatus response body and indicate a status of 507 (Insufficient Storage) for the search arbiter URI. It SHOULD include the partial results. When a result set is truncated, there may be many more resources that satisfy the search criteria but that were not examined. If partial results are included and the client requested an ordered result set in the original request, then any partial results that are returned MUST be ordered as the client directed. Note that the partial results returned MAY be any subset of the result set that would have satisfied the original query. >> Request: SEARCH / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.net Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxx ... the query goes here ... >> Response: HTTP/1.1 207 Multistatus Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxx http://www.example.net/sounds/unbrokenchain.au HTTP/1.1 200 OK http://tech.mit.test/archive96/photos/Lesh1.jpg Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 11] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 HTTP/1.1 200 OK http://example.net HTTP/1.1 507 Insufficient Storage Only first two matching records were returned 2.5 Unsuccessful Responses If an error occurred that prevented execution of the query, the server MUST indicate the failure with the appropriate status code and SHOULD include a DAV:multistatus element to point out errors associated with scopes. 400 Bad Request. The query could not be executed. The request may be malformed (not valid XML for example). Additionally, this can be used for invalid scopes and search redirections. 422 Unprocessable entity. The query could not be executed. If a application/xml or text/xml request entity was provided, then it may have been well-formed but may have contained an unsupported or unimplemented query operator. 2.6 Invalid Scopes 2.6.1 Indicating an Invalid Scope A client may submit a scope that the arbiter may be unable to query. The inability to query may be due to network failure, administrative policy, security, etc. This raises the condition described as an "invalid scope". To indicate an invalid scope, the server MUST respond with a 400 (Bad Request). Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 12] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 The response includes a body with a DAV:multistatus element. Each DAV:response in the DAV:multistatus identifies a scope. To indicate that this scope is the source of the error, the server MUST include the DAV:scopeerror element. 2.6.2 Example of an Invalid Scope >> Response: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad-Request Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxx http://www.example.com/X HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 13] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 3 Discovery of Supported Query Grammars Servers MUST support discovery of the query grammars supported by a search arbiter resource. Clients can determine which query grammars are supported by an arbiter by invoking OPTIONS on the search arbiter. If the resource supports SEARCH, then the DASL response header will appear in the response. The DASL response header lists the supported grammars. Servers supporting the WebDAV extensions [RFC3253] and/or [ACL] MUST also o report SEARCH in the live property DAV:supported-method-set for all search arbiter resources and o support the live property DAV:supported-query-grammar-set as defined in section 3.3. 3.1 The OPTIONS Method The OPTIONS method allows the client to discover if a resource supports the SEARCH method and to determine the list of search grammars supported for that resource. The client issues the OPTIONS method against a resource named by the Request-URI. This is a normal invocation of OPTIONS defined in [RFC2616]. If a resource supports the SEARCH method, then the server MUST list SEARCH in the OPTIONS response as defined by [RFC2616]. DASL servers MUST include the DASL header in the OPTIONS response. This header identifies the search grammars supported by that resource. 3.2 The DASL Response Header >> Response: DASLHeader = "DASL" ":" Coded-URL-List Coded-URL-List : Coded-URL [ "," Coded-URL-List ] Coded-URL ; defined in section 9.4 of [RFC2518] Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 14] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 The DASL response header indicates server support for a query grammar in the OPTIONS method. The value is a URI that indicates the type of grammar. Note that although the URI can be used to identify each supported search grammar, there is not necessarily a direct relationship between the URI and the XML element name that can be used in XML based SEARCH requests (the element name itself is identified by it's namespace name (a URI reference) and the element's local name). This header MAY be repeated. For example: DASL: DASL: DASL: DASL: 3.3 DAV:supported-query-grammar-set (protected) This WebDAV property is required for any server supporting either [RFC3253] and/or [ACL] and identifies the XML based query grammars that are supported by the search arbiter resource. ANY value: a query grammar element type 3.4 Example: Grammar Discovery This example shows that the server supports search on the /somefolder resource with the query grammars: DAV:basicsearch, http://foobar.test/syntax1 and http://akuma.test/syntax2. Note that every server MUST support DAV:basicsearch. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 15] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 >> Request: OPTIONS /somefolder HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org >> Response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, COPY, MOVE Allow: MKCOL, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, LOCK, UNLOCK, SEARCH DASL: DASL: DASL: This example shows the equivalent taking advantage of a server's support for DAV:supported-method-set and DAV:supported-query-grammar- set. >> Request: PROPFIND /somefolder HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org Depth: 0 Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxx >> Response: HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxx Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 16] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 http://example.org/somefolder HTTP/1.1 200 OK Note that the query grammar element names marshalled as part of the DAV:supported-query-grammar-set can be directly used as element names in an XML based query. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 17] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 4 Query Schema Discovery: QSD Servers MAY support the discovery of the schema for a query grammar. The DASL response header and the DAV:supported-query-grammar-set property provide means for clients to discover the set of query grammars supported by a resource. This alone is not sufficient information for a client to generate a query. For example, the DAV:basicsearch grammar defines a set of queries consisting of a set of operators applied to a set of properties and values, but the grammar itself does not specify which properties may be used in the query. QSD for the DAV:basicsearch grammar allows a client to discover the set of properties that are searchable, selectable, and sortable. Moreover, although the DAV:basicsearch grammar defines a minimal set of operators, it is possible that a resource might support additional operators in a query. For example, a resource might support a optional operator that can be used to express content-based queries in a proprietary syntax. QSD allows a client to discover these operators and their syntax. The set of discoverable quantities will differ from grammar to grammar, but each grammar can define a means for a client to discover what can be discovered. In general, the schema for a given query grammar depends on both the resource (the arbiter) and the scope. A given resource might have access to one set of properties for one potential scope, and another set for a different scope. For example, consider a server able to search two distinct collections, one holding cooking recipes, the other design documents for nuclear weapons. While both collections might support properties such as author, title, and date, the first might also define properties such as calories and preparation time, while the second defined properties such as yield and applicable patents. Two distinct arbiters indexing the same collection might also have access to different properties. For example, the recipe collection mentioned above might also indexed by a value-added server that also stored the names of chefs who had tested the recipe. Note also that the available query schema might also depend on other factors, such as the identity of the principal conducting the search, but these factors are not exposed in this protocol. 4.1 Additional SEARCH semantics Each query grammar supported by DASL defines its own syntax for expressing the possible query schema. A client retrieves the schema for a given query grammar on an arbiter resource with a given scope by invoking the SEARCH method on that arbiter with that grammar and scope and with a root element of DAV:query-schema-discovery rather than DAV:searchrequest. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 18] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 Marshalling: The requst body MUST be DAV:query-schema-discovery element. ANY value: XML element defining a valid query The response body takes the form of a RFC2518 DAV:multistatus element, where DAV:response is extended to hold the returned query grammar inside a DAV:query-schema container element. The content of this container is an XML element whose name and syntax depend upon the grammar, and whose value may (and likely will) vary depending upon the grammar, arbiter, and scope. 4.1.1 Example of query schema discovery In this example, the arbiter is recipes.test, the grammar is DAV:basicsearch, the scope is also recipes.test. >> Request: SEARCH / HTTP/1.1 Host: recipes.test Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: xxx Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 19] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 http://recipes.test infinity >> Response: HTTP/1.1 207 Multistatus Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: xxx http://recipes.test HTTP/1.1 200 OK The query schema for DAV:basicsearch is defined in section 5.19. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 20] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5 The DAV:basicsearch Grammar 5.1 Introduction DAV:basicsearch uses an extensible XML syntax that allows clients to express search requests that are generally useful for WebDAV scenarios. DASL-extended servers MUST accept this grammar, and MAY accept other grammars. DAV:basicsearch has several components: o DAV:select provides the result record definition. o DAV:from defines the scope. o DAV:where defines the criteria. o DAV:orderby defines the sort order of the result set. o DAV:limit provides constraints on the query as a whole. 5.2 The DAV:basicsearch DTD Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 21] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.2.1 Example Query This query retrieves the content length values for all resources located under the server's "/container1/" URI namespace whose length exceeds 10000. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 22] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 /container1/ infinity 10000 5.3 DAV:select DAV:select defines the result record, which is a set of properties and values. This document defines two possible values: DAV:allprop and DAV:prop, both defined in [RFC2518] and revised in [RFC3253] . 5.4 DAV:from DAV:from defines the query scope. This contains exactly one DAV:scope element. The scope element contains mandatory DAV:href and DAV:depth elements. DAV:href indicates the URI to use as a scope. When the scope is a collection, if DAV:depth is "0", the search includes only the collection. When it is "1", the search includes the (toplevel) members of the collection. When it is "infinity", the search includes all recursive members of the collection. When the Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 23] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 scope is not a collection, the depth is ignored and the search applies just to the resource itself. 5.4.1 Relationship to the Request-URI If the DAV:scope element is an absolute URI, the scope is exactly that URI. If the DAV:scope element is is an absolute URI reference, the scope is taken to be relative to the request-URI. 5.4.2 Scope A Scope can be an arbitrary URI. Servers, of course, may support only particular scopes. This may include limitations for particular schemes such as "http:" or "ftp:" or certain URI namespaces. 5.5 DAV:where The DAV:where element defines the search condition for inclusion of resources in the result set. The value of this element is an XML element that defines a search operator that evaluates to one of the Boolean truth values TRUE, FALSE, or UNKNOWN. The search operator contained by DAV:where may itself contain and evaluate additional search operators as operands, which in turn may contain and evaluate additional search operators as operands, etc. recursively. 5.5.1 Use of Three-Valued Logic in Queries Each operator defined for use in the where clause that returns a Boolean value MUST evaluate to TRUE, FALSE, or UNKNOWN. The resource under scan is included as a member of the result set if and only if the search condition evaluates to TRUE. Consult appendix A for details on the application of three-valued logic in query expressions. 5.5.2 Handling Optional operators If a query contains an operator that is not supported by the server, then the server MUST respond with a 422 (Unprocessable Entity) status Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 24] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 code. 5.5.3 Treatment of NULL Values If a PROPFIND for a property value would yield a non-2xx (see [RFC2616], section 10.2) response for that property, then that property is considered NULL. NULL values are "less than" all other values in comparisons. Empty strings (zero length strings) are not NULL values. An empty string is "less than" a string with length greater than zero. The DAV:isdefined operator is defined to test if the value of a property is NULL. 5.5.4 Treatment of properties with mixed/element content Comparisons of properties that do not have simple types (text-only content) is out-of-scope for the standard operators defined for DAV:basicsearch and therefore is defined to be UNKNOWN (as per appendix A). For querying the DAV:resourcetype property, see section 5.13. 5.5.5 Example: Testing for Equality The example shows a single operator (DAV:eq) applied in the criteria. 100 Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 25] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.5.6 Example: Relative Comparisons The example shows a more complex operation involving several operators (DAV:and, DAV:eq, DAV:gt) applied in the criteria. This DAV:where expression matches those resources that are "image/gifs" over 4K in size. image/gif 4096 5.6 DAV:orderby The DAV:orderby element specifies the ordering of the result set. It contains one or more DAV:order elements, each of which specifies a comparison between two items in the result set. Informally, a comparison specifies a test that determines whether one resource appears before another in the result set. Comparisons are applied in the order they occur in the DAV:orderby element, earlier comparisons being more significant. The comparisons defined here use only a single property from each resource, compared using the same ordering as the DAV:lt operator (ascending) or DAV:gt operator (descending). If neither direction is specified, the default is DAV:ascending. In the context of the DAV:orderby element, null values are considered to collate before any actual (i.e., non null) value, including strings of zero length (this is compatible with [SQL99]). Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 26] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.6.1 Comparing Natural Language Strings Comparisons on strings take into account the language defined for that property. Clients MAY specify the language using the xml:lang attribute. If no language is specified either by the client or defined for that property by the server or if a comparison is performed on strings of two different languages, the results are undefined. The "caseless" attribute may be used to indicate case-sensitivity for comparisons. 5.6.2 Example of Sorting This sort orders first by last name of the author, and then by size, in descending order, so that for each author, the largest works appear first. 5.7 Boolean Operators: DAV:and, DAV:or, and DAV:not The DAV:and operator performs a logical AND operation on the expressions it contains. The DAV:or operator performs a logical OR operation on the values it contains. The DAV:not operator performs a logical NOT operation on the values it contains. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 27] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.8 DAV:eq The DAV:eq operator provides simple equality matching on property values. The "caseless" attribute may be used with this element. 5.9 DAV:lt, DAV:lte, DAV:gt, DAV:gte The DAV:lt, DAV:lte, DAV:gt, and DAV:gte operators provide comparisons on property values, using less-than, less-than or equal, greater-than, and greater-than or equal respectively. The "caseless" attribute may be used with these elements. 5.10 DAV:literal DAV:literal allows literal values to be placed in an expression. White space in literal values is significant in comparisons. For consistency with [RFC2518], clients SHOULD NOT specify the attribute "xml:space" (section 2.10 of [XML]) to override this behaviour. In comparisons, the contents of DAV:literal SHOULD be treated as string, with the following exceptions: o when operand for a comparison with a DAV:getcontentlength property, it SHOULD be treated as an integer value (the behaviour for non-integer values is undefined), o when operand for a comparison with a DAV:creationdate or DAV:getlastmodified property, it SHOULD be treated as a date value in the ISO-8601 subset defined for the DAV:creationdate property ([RFC2518], section 13.1). o when operand for a comparison with a property for which the type is known, it MAY be treated according to this type. 5.11 DAV:typed-literal (optional) There are situations in which a client may want to force a comparison not to be string-based (as defined for DAV:literal). In these cases, a typed comparison can be enforced by using DAV:typed-literal instead. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 28] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 The data type is specified using the xsi:type attribute defined in [XS1], section 2.6.1. If the type is not specified, it defaults to "xs:string". A server MUST reject a request with an unknown type. 5.11 Example for typed numerical comparison Consider a set of resources with the dead property "edits" in the namespace "http://ns.example.org": URI property value /a "-1" /b "01" /c "3" /d "test" /e (undefined) The expression 3 will evaluate to TRUE for the resources "/a" and "/b" (their property values can be parsed as type xs:number, and the numerical comparison evaluates to true), to FALSE for "/c" (property value is compatible, but numerical comparison evaluates to false) and UNKNOWN fot "/d" and "/e" (the property either is undefined, or its value can not be Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 29] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 parsed as xs:number). 5.13 DAV:is-collection The DAV:is-collection operator allows clients to determine whether a resource is a collection (that is, whether it's DAV:resourcetype element contains the element DAV:collection). Rationale: This operator is provided in lieu of defining generic structure queries, which would suffice for this and for many more powerful queries, but seems inappropriate to standardize at this time. 5.13.1 Example of DAV:is-collection This example shows a search criterion that picks out all and only the resources in the scope that are collections. 5.14 DAV:is-defined The DAV:is-defined operator allows clients to determine whether a property is defined on a resource. The meaning of "defined on a resource" is found in section 5.5.3. Example: Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 30] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.15 DAV:like The DAV:like is an optional operator intended to give simple wildcard-based pattern matching ability to clients. The operator takes two arguments. The first argument is a DAV:prop element identifying a single property to evaluate. The second argument is a DAV:literal element that gives the pattern matching string. 5.15.1 Syntax for the Literal Pattern Pattern := [wildcard] 0*( text [wildcard] ) wildcard := exactlyone | zeroormore text := 1*( | escapesequence ) exactlyone : = "_" zeroormore := "%" escapechar := "\" escapesequence := "\" ( exactlyone | zeroormore | escapechar ) character: valid XML characters (see section 2.2 of [XML]), minus ( exactlyone | zeroormore | escapechar ) The value for the literal is composed of wildcards separated by segments of text. Wildcards may begin or end the literal. The "?" wildcard matches exactly one character. The "%" wildcard matches zero or more characters The " 5.15.2 Example of DAV:like This example shows how a client might use DAV:like to identify those resources whose content type was a subtype of image. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 31] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 image/% 5.16 DAV:contains The DAV:contains operator is an optional operator that provides content-based search capability. This operator implicitly searches against the text content of a resource, not against content of properties. The DAV:contains operator is intentionally not overly constrained, in order to allow the server to do the best job it can in performing the search. The DAV:contains operator evaluates to a Boolean value. It evaluates to TRUE if the content of the resource satisfies the search. Otherwise, It evaluates to FALSE. Within the DAV:contains XML element, the client provides a phrase: a single word or whitespace delimited sequence of words. Servers MAY ignore punctuation in a phrase. Case-sensitivity is left to the server. The following things may or may not be done as part of the search: Phonetic methods such as "soundex" may or may not be used. Word stemming may or may not be performed. Thesaurus expansion of words may or may not be done. Right or left truncation may or may not be performed. The search may be case insensitive or case sensitive. The word or words may or may not be interpreted as names. Multiple words may or may not be required to be adjacent or "near" each other. Multiple words may or may not be required to occur in the same order. Multiple words may or may not be treated as a phrase. The search may or may not be interpreted as a request to find documents "similar" to the string operand. 5.16.1 Result scoring (DAV:score element) Servers SHOULD indicate scores for the DAV:contains condition by adding a DAV:score XML element to the DAV:response element. It's value is defined only in the context of a particular query result. The value is a string representing the score, an integer from zero to 10000 inclusive, where a higher value indicates a higher score (e.g. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 32] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 more relevant). Modified DTD fragment for DAV:propstat: Clients should note that, in general, it is not meaningful to compare the numeric values of scores from two different query results unless both were executed by the same underlying search system on the same collection of resources. 5.16.2 Ordering by score To order search results by their score, the DAV:score element may be added as child to the DAV:orderby element (in place of a DAV:prop element). 5.16.3 Examples The example below shows a search for the phrase "Peter Forsberg". Depending on its support for content-based searching, a server MAY treat this as a search for documents that contain the words "Peter" and "Forsberg". Peter Forsberg The example below shows a search for resources that contain "Peter" and "Forsberg". Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 33] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 Peter Forsberg 5.17 Limiting the result set ;only digits The DAV:limit XML element contains requested limits from the client to limit the size of the reply or amount of effort expended by the server. The DAV:nresults XML element contains a requested maximum number of DAV:response elements to be returned in the response body. The server MAY disregard this limit. The value of this element is an integer. 5.17.1 Relationship to result ordering If the result set is both limited by DAV:limit and ordered according to DAV:orderby, the results that are included in the response document must be those that order highest. 5.18 The "caseless" XML attribute The "caseless" attribute allows clients to specify caseless matching behaviour instead of character-by-character matching for DAV:basicsearch operators. The possible values for "caseless" are "yes" or "no". The default value is server-specified. Caseless matching SHOULD be implemented as defined in [CaseMap]. Support for the "caseless" attribute is optional. A server should respond with a status of 422 if it is used but cannot be supported. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 34] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.19 Query schema for DAV:basicsearch The DAV:basicsearch grammar defines a search criteria that is a Boolean-valued expression, and allows for an arbitrary set of properties to be included in the result record. The result set may be sorted on a set of property values. Accordingly the DTD for schema discovery for this grammar allows the server to express: 1. the set of properties that may be either searched, returned, or used to sort, and a hint about the data type of such properties 2. the set of optional operators defined by the resource. 5.19.1 DTD for DAV:basicsearch QSD The DAV:properties element holds a list of descriptions of properties. The DAV:operators element describes the optional operators that may be used in a DAV:where element. 5.19.2 DAV:propdesc Element Each instance of a DAV:propdesc element describes the property or properties in the DAV:prop element it contains. All subsequent elements are descriptions that apply to those properties. All descriptions are optional and may appear in any order. Servers SHOULD support all the descriptions defined here, and MAY define others. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 35] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 DASL defines five descriptions. The first, DAV:datatype, provides a hint about the type of the property value, and may be useful to a user interface prompting for a value. The remaining four (DAV:searchable, DAV:selectable, DAV:sortable, and DAV:caseless) identify portions of the query (DAV:where, DAV:select, and DAV:orderby, respectively). If a property has a description for a section, then the server MUST allow the property to be used in that section. These descriptions are optional. If a property does not have such a description, or is not described at all, then the server MAY still allow the property to be used in the corresponding section. 5.19.2.1 DAV:any-other-property This element can be used in place of DAV:prop to describe properties of WebDAV properties not mentioned in any other DAV:prop element. For instance, this can be used to indicate that all other properties are searchable and selectable without giving details about their types (a typical scenario for dead properties). 5.19.3 The DAV:datatype Property Description The DAV:datatype element contains a single XML element that provides a hint about the domain of the property, which may be useful to a user interface prompting for a value to be used in a query. Datatypes are identified by an element name. Where appropriate, a server SHOULD use the simple datatypes defined in [XS2]. Examples from [XS2], section 3: Qualified name Example xs:boolean true, false, 1, 0 xs:string Foobar xs:dateTime 1994-11-05T08:15:5Z xs:float .314159265358979E+1 xs:integer -259, 23 Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 36] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 If the data type of a property is not given, then the data type defaults to xs:string. 5.19.4 The DAV:searchable Property Description If this element is present, then the server MUST allow this property to appear within a DAV:where element where an operator allows a property. Allowing a search does not mean that the property is guaranteed to be defined on every resource in the scope, it only indicates the server's willingness to check. 5.19.5 The DAV:selectable Property Description This element indicates that the property may appear in the DAV:select element. 5.19.6 The DAV:sortable Property Description This element indicates that the property may appear in the DAV:orderby element. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 37] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 5.19.7 The DAV:caseless Property Description This element only applies to properties whose data type is "xs:string" and derived data types as per the DAV:datatype property description. Its presence indicates that compares performed for searches, and the comparisons for ordering results on the string property will be caseless (the default is character-by-character). 5.19.8 The DAV:operators XML Element The DAV:operators element describes every optional operator supported in a query. (Mandatory operators are not listed since they are mandatory and permit no variation in syntax.). All optional operators that are supported MUST be listed in the DAV:operators element. The listing for an operator consists of the operator (as an empty element), followed by one element for each operand. The operand MUST be either DAV:operand-property or DAV:operand-literal, which indicate that the operand in the corresponding position is a property or a literal value, respectively. If an operator is polymorphic (allows more than one operand syntax) then each permitted syntax MUST be listed separately. 5.19.9 Example of Query Schema for DAV:basicsearch This response lists four properties. The datatype of the last three properties is not given, so it defaults to xs:string. All are selectable, and the first three may be searched. All but the last may be used in a sort. Of the optional DAV operators, DAV:isdefined and DAV:like are supported. Note: The schema discovery defined here does not provide for discovery of supported values of the "caseless" attribute. This may require that the reply also list the mandatory operators. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 39] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 6 Internationalization Considerations Clients have the opportunity to tag properties when they are stored in a language. The server SHOULD read this language-tagging by examining the xml:lang attribute on any properties stored on a resource. The xml:lang attribute specifies a nationalized collation sequence when properties are compared. Comparisons when this attribute differs have undefined order. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 40] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 7 Security Considerations This section is provided to detail issues concerning security implications of which DASL applications need to be aware. All of the security considerations of HTTP/1.1 also apply to DASL. In addition, this section will include security risks inherent in searching and retrieval of resource properties and content. A query must not allow one to retrieve information about values or existence of properties that one could not obtain via PROPFIND. (e.g. by use in DAV:orderby, or in expressions on properties.) A server should prepare for denial of service attacks. For example a client may issue a query for which the result set is expensive to calculate or transmit because many resources match or must be evaluated. 7.1 Implications of XML External Entities XML supports a facility known as "external entities", defined in section 4.2.2 of [XML], which instruct an XML processor to retrieve and perform an inline include of XML located at a particular URI. An external XML entity can be used to append or modify the document type declaration (DTD) associated with an XML document. An external XML entity can also be used to include XML within the content of an XML document. For non-validating XML, such as the XML used in this specification, including an external XML entity is not required by [XML]. However, [XML] does state that an XML processor may, at its discretion, include the external XML entity. External XML entities have no inherent trustworthiness and are subject to all the attacks that are endemic to any HTTP GET request. Furthermore, it is possible for an external XML entity to modify the DTD, and hence affect the final form of an XML document, in the worst case significantly modifying its semantics, or exposing the XML processor to the security risks discussed in [RFC3023]. Therefore, implementers must be aware that external XML entities should be treated as untrustworthy. There is also the scalability risk that would accompany a widely deployed application which made use of external XML entities. In this situation, it is possible that there would be significant numbers of requests for one external XML entity, potentially overloading any server which fields requests for the resource containing the external XML entity. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 41] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 8 Scalability Query grammars are identified by URIs. Applications SHOULD not attempt to retrieve these URIs even if they appear to be retrievable (for example, those that begin with "http://") Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 42] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 9 Authentication Authentication mechanisms defined in WebDAV will also apply to DASL. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 43] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 10 IANA Considerations This document uses the namespace defined by [RFC2518] for XML elements. All other IANA considerations mentioned in [RFC2518] are also applicable to DASL. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 44] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 11 Copyright To be supplied. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 45] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 12 Intellectual Property To be supplied. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 46] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 13 Acknowledgements This draft has benefited from thoughtful discussion by Lisa Dusseault, Sung Kim, Elias Sinderson, Martin Wallmer and Jim Whitehead. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 47] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 Normative References [ACL] Clemm, G., Hopkins, A., Sedlar, E. and Whitehead, J., "WebDAV Access Control Protocol", ID draft-ietf-webdav- acl-09, July 2002. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC2518] Goland, Y., Whitehead, E., Faizi, A., Carter, S.R. and Jensen, D., "HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV", RFC 2518, February 1999. [RFC2616] Fielding, R.T., Gettys, J., Mogul, J.C., Nielsen, H.F., Masinter, L., Leach, P.J. and Berners-Lee, T., "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999. [RFC3023] Makoto, M., St.Laurent, S. and Kohn, D., "XML Media Types", RFC 3023, January 2001. [RFC3253] Clemm, G., Amsden, J., Ellison, T., Kaler, C. and Whitehead, J., "Versioning Extensions to WebDAV", RFC 3253, March 2002. [XML] Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. and Maler, E., "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (2nd ed)", W3C REC- xml, October 2000. [XMLNS] Bray, T., Hollander, D. and Layman, A., "Namespaces in XML", W3C REC-xml-names, January 1999. [XS1] Thompson, H. S., Beech, D., Maloney, M., Mendelsohn, N. and World Wide Web Consortium, "XML Schema Part 1: Structures", W3C XS1, May 2001. [XS2] Biron, P. V., Malhotra, A. and World Wide Web Consortium, "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes", W3C XS2, May 2001. Informative References [BIND] Clemm, G., Crawford, J., Reschke, J. F., Slein, J. and Whitehead, J., "Binding Extensions to WebDAV", ID draft- ietf-webdav-bind-00, October 2002. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 48] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 [CaseMap] Davis, M., "Case Mappings", Unicode Techical Reports 21, February 2001. [DASL] Reddy, S., Lowry, D., Reddy, S., Henderson, R., Davis, J. and Babich, A., "DAV Searching & Locating", ID draft-dasl- protocol-00, July 1999. [DASLREQ] Davis, J., Reddy, S. and Slein, J., "Requirements for DAV Searching and Locating", ID draft-dasl-requirements-01, February 1999. [SQL99] Milton, J., "Database Language SQL Part 2: Foundation (SQL/Foundation)", ISO ISO/IEC 9075-2:1999 (E), July 1999. Author's Addresses Julian F. Reschke greenbytes GmbH Salzmannstrasse 152 Muenster, NW 48159 Germany Phone: +49 251 2807760 Fax: +49 251 2807761 EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/ Surendra Reddy Oracle Corporation 600 Oracle Parkway, M/S 6op3 Redwoodshores, CA 94065 Phone: +1 650 506 5441 EMail: Surendra.Reddy@oracle.com Jim Davis Intelligent Markets 410 Jessie Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94103 EMail: jrd3@alum.mit.edu Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 49] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 Alan Babich FileNET Corp. 3565 Harbor Blvd. Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Phone: +1 714 327 3403 EMail: ababich@filenet.com Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 50] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 A Three-Valued Logic in DAV:basicsearch ANSI standard three valued logic is used when evaluating the search condition (as defined in the ANSI standard SQL specifications, for example in ANSI X3.135-1992, section 8.12, pp. 188-189, section 8.2, p. 169, General Rule 1)a), etc.). ANSI standard three valued logic is undoubtedly the most widely practiced method of dealing with the issues of properties in the search condition not having a value (e.g., being null or not defined) for the resource under scan, and with undefined expressions in the search condition (e.g., division by zero, etc.). Three valued logic works as follows. Undefined expressions are expressions for which the value of the expression is not defined. Undefined expressions are a completely separate concept from the truth value UNKNOWN, which is, in fact, well defined. Property names and literal constants are considered expressions for purposes of this section. If a property in the current resource under scan has not been set to a value, then the value of that property is undefined for the resource under scan. DASL 1.0 has no arithmetic division operator, but if it did, division by zero would be an undefined arithmetic expression. If any subpart of an arithmetic, string, or datetime subexpression is undefined, the whole arithmetic, string, or datetime subexpression is undefined. There are no manifest constants to explicitly represent undefined number, string, or datetime values. Since a Boolean value is ultimately returned by the search condition, arithmetic, string, and datetime expressions are always arguments to other operators. Examples of operators that convert arithmetic, string, and datetime expressions to Boolean values are the six relational operators ("greater than", "less than", "equals", etc.). If either or both operands of a relational operator have undefined values, then the relational operator evaluates to UNKNOWN. Otherwise, the relational operator evaluates to TRUE or FALSE, depending upon the outcome of the comparison. The Boolean operators DAV:and, DAV:or and DAV:not are evaluated according to the following rules: UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN = UNKNOWN UNKNOWN or UNKNOWN = UNKNOWN Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 51] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 not UNKNOWN = UNKNOWN UNKNOWN and TRUE = UNKNOWN UNKNOWN and FALSE = FALSE UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN = UNKNOWN UNKNOWN or TRUE = TRUE UNKNOWN or FALSE = UNKNOWN UNKNOWN or UNKNOWN = UNKNOWN Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 52] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 B Change Log B.1 From draft-davis-dasl-protocol-xxx Feb 14, 1998 Initial Draft Feb 28, 1998 Referring to DASL as an extension to HTTP/1.1 rather than DAV. Added new sections "Notational Conventions", "Protocol Model", "Security Considerations". Changed section 3 to "Elements of Protocol". Added some stuff to introduction. Added "result set" terminology. Added "IANA Considerations". Mar 9, 1998 Moved sub-headings of "Elements of Protocol" to first level and removed "Elements of Protocol" Heading. Added an sentence in introduction explaining that this is a "sketch" of a protocol. Mar 11, 1998 Added orderby, data typing, three valued logic, query schema property, and element definitions for schema for basicsearch. April 8, 1998 - made changes based on last week's DASL BOF. May 8, 1998 Removed most of DAV:searcherror; converted to DAV:searchredirect Altered DAV:basicsearch grammar to use avoid use of ANY in DTD June 17, 1998 -Added details on Query Schema Discovery -Shortened list of data types June 23, 1998 moved data types before change history rewrote the data types section removed the casesensitive element and replace with the casesensitive attribute added the casesensitive attribute to the DTD for all operations that might work on a string Jul 20, 1998 A series of changes. See Author's meeting minutes for details. July 28, 1998 Changes as per author's meeting. QSD uses SEARCH, not PROPFIND. Moved text around to keep concepts nearby. Boolean literals are 1 and 0, not T and F. contains changed to contentspassthrough. Renamed rank to score. July 28, 1998 Added Dale Lowry as Author September 4, 1998 Added 422 as response when query lists unimplemented operators. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 53] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 DAV:literal declares a default value for xml:space, 'preserve' (see XML spec, section 2.10) moved to new XML namespace syntax September 22, 1998 Changed "simplesearch" to "basicsearch" Changed isnull to isdefined Defined NULLness as having a 404 or 403 response used ENTITY syntax in DTD Added redirect October 9, 1998 Fixed a series of typographical and formatting errors. Modified the section of three-valued logic to use a table rather than a text description of the role of UNKNOWN in expressions. November 2, 1998 Added the DAV:contains operator. Removed the DAV:contentpassthrough operator. November 18, 1998 Various author comments for submission June 3, 1999 Cosmetic and minor editorial changes only. Fix nits reported by Jim Whitehead in email of April 26, 1999. Converted to HTML from Word 97, manually. April 20, 2000 Removed redirection feature, since 301/302 suffices. Removed Query Schema Discovery (former chapter 4). Everyone agrees this is a useful feature, but it is apparently too difficult to define at this time, and it is not essential for DASL. B.2 since start of draft-reschke-webdav-search October 09, 2001 Added Julian Reschke as author. Chapter about QSD re-added. Formatted into RFC2629-compliant XML document. Added first comments. ID version number kicked up to draft-dasl- protocol-03. October 17, 2001 Updated address information for Jim Davis. Added issue of datatype vocabularies. Updated issue descriptions for grammar discovery, added issues on query schema DTD. Fixed typos in XML examples. December 17, 2001 Re-introduced split between normative and non- normative references. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 54] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 January 05, 2002 Version bumbed up to 04. Started work on resolving the issues identified in the previous version. January 14, 2002 Fixed some XML typos. January 22, 2002 Closed issues naming-of-elements. Fixed query search DTD and added option to discover properties of "other" (non-listed) properties. January 25, 2002 Changed into private submission and added reference to historic DASL draft. Marked reference to DASL requirements non-normative. Updated reference to latest deltav spec. January 29, 2002 Added feedback from and updated contact info for Alan Babich. Included open issues collected in http://www.webdav.org/dasl/protocol/issues.html. February 8, 2002 Made sure that all artwork fits into 72 characters wide text. February 18, 2002 Changed Insufficient storage handling (multistatus). Moved is-collection to operators and added to DTD. Made scope/depth mandatory. February 20, 2002 Updated reference to SQL99. February 28, 2002 "Non-normative References" -> "Informative References". Abstract updated. Consistently specify a charset when using text/xml (no change bars). Do not attempt to define PROPFIND's entity encoding (take out specific references to text/xml). Remove irrelevant headers (Connection:) from examples (no change bars). Added issue on querying based on DAV:href. Updated introduction to indicate relationship to DASL draft. Updated HTTP reference from RFC2068 to RFC2616. Updated XML reference to XML 1.0 2nd edition. March 1, 2002 Removed superfluous namespace decl in 2.4.2. Reopened JW14 and suggest to drop xml:space support. March 3, 2002 Removed "xml:space" feature on DAV:literal. Added issue about string comparison vs. collations vs. xml:lang. Updated some of the open issues with details from JimW's original mail in April 1999. Resolved scope vs relative URI references. Resolved issues about DAV:ascending (added to index) and the BNF for DAV:like (changed "octets" to "characters"). March 8, 2002 Updated reference to DeltaV (now RFC3253). Added Martin Wallmer's comments, moved JW5 into DAV:basicsearch section. March 11, 2002 Closed open issues regaring the type of search arbiters (JW3) and their discovery (JW9). Rephrased requirements on multistatus response bodies Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 55] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 (propstat only if properties were selected, removed requirement for responsedescription). March 23, 2002 RFC2376 -> RFC3023. Added missing first names of authors. OPTIONS added to example for DAV:supported-method-set. B.3 since draft-reschke-webdav-search-00 March 29, 2002 Abstract doesn't refer to DASL WG anymore. April 7, 2002 Fixed section title (wrong property name supported- search-grammar-set. Changed DAV:casesensitve to "casesensitive" (it wasn't in the DAV: namespace after all). May 28, 2002 Updated some issues with Jim Davis's comments. June 10, 2002 Added proposal for different method for query schema discovery, not using pseudo-properties. June 25, 2002 QSD marshalling rewritten. Added issue "isdefined- optional". B.4 since draft-reschke-webdav-search-01 July 04, 2002 Added issue "scope-collection". July 08, 2002 Closed issue "scope-collection". August 12, 2002 Added issues "results-vs-binds" and "select- allprop". October 22, 2002 Added issue "undefined-expressions". November 18, 2002 Changed example host names (no change tracking). November 25, 2002 Updated issue "DB2/DB7". Closed issues "undefined expressions", "isdefined-optional" and "select- allprop". B.5 since draft-reschke-webdav-search-02 Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 56] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 November 27, 2002 Added issues "undefined-properties", "like- exactlyone" and "like-wildcard-adjacent". Closed issue "query-on-href". Added acknowledgments section. November 28, 2002 Closed issue "like-exactlyone". Added issue "mixed- content-properties". December 14, 2002 Closed issues "undefined-properties", "results-vs- binds", "mixed-content-properties". Updated issue "like-wildcard-adjacent". Added informative reference to BIND draft. Updated reference to ACL draft. January 9, 2003 Removed duplicate section on invalid scopes. Added comments to some open issues. Closed issues JW25/26, score-pseudo-property and null-ordering. January 10, 2003 Issue limit-vs-ordering plus resolution. Closed issue JW17/JW24b. January 14, 2003 New issue order-precedence. Started resolution of DB2/DB7. January 15, 2003 Started spec of DAV:typed-literal. January 17, 2003 Fix one DAV:like/DAV:getcontenttype example (add / to like expression, make case-insensitive). January 28, 2003 Update issue(s) result-truncation, JW24d. Fixed response headers in OPTIONS example. Added issue qsd-optional. Closed issue(s) order-precedence, case-insensitivity-name. February 07, 2003 Added issue scope-vs-versions. score-pseudo- property: allow DAV:orderby to explicitly specify DAV:score. Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 57] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 Index D DAV:ascending XML element 5.6 DAV:descending XML element 5.6 DAV:limit XML element 5.17 DAV:nresults XML element 5.17 DAV:score XML element 5.16.1 relationship to DAV:orderby 5.17.1 DAV:searchrequest XML element 2.3 DAV:supported-query-grammar-set property 3.3 O OPTIONS method 3.1DASL response header 3.2 Q Query Grammar Discovery Reschke, et al. Expires August 2003 [Page 58] Internet Draft WebDAV SEARCH February 2003 3using OPTIONS 3.1 using live property 3.3 R Result Set Truncation Example 2.4.3 S Scope Invalid 2.6 SEARCH method 2 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved. 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