Re: WebDAV

That was fast... I only announced about 10 minutes before your email :-) Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Stig or Jim, As our resident SGML/XML gearheads, could either of you have > a close look at this WebDAV Apache module that was just released, please? > > http://www.lyra.org/greg/mod_dav/ > > Stig, you will note that it uses expat as well, so it may tie into your > XML work somehow. > > Strategically, my bet is that DAV support is going to become very > important over the next couple of years. I want to make sure that mod_php > and mod_dav co-exist nicely. We may even be able to do some interesting > things with the Apache notes table to communicate with mod_dav (if they > co-exist). I believe the largest point of co-existence is enabling DAV's concept of "source links" for PHP files. Specifically, DAV understands the difference between the *output* of a PHP file and the PHP file itself. When authoring, people will want to get/put the source file. Some finer points of integration would be the XML handling (in my case, it is processing request bodies which contain XML). And yes, I also think DAV is going to be big ;-) > If we can't get them to co-exist, then we should figure out how to link > the DAV stuff directly into PHP. The author of the module, Greg, states > explicitly: > > "My intent is to provide an Open Source DAV implemention to the user > community. In addition, I would also like to enable Apache distributors > and Apache developers (of derivative works) to include mod_dav in their > distributions or software." > > Sounds like he is talking directly to us. ;) You bet :-) I will do whatever is needed to ensure that they can co-exist. PHP is an important tool, so it would be a sad state of affairs if the two modules couldn't live together. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/ -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net