I've been wading thru all the spec confusion around this, and decided to
approach the problem from the other side, to find out actually how much
development work was involved. It took less than an hour to put this together.
We have a pragmatic application for this, a customer who needs a script
that checks a folder on a web server every night, to see if there are any
new files added, and to get only those files. It's a pretty basic
operation, and unless you want to go WebDAV, it's not very much work on
either the client or server.
Here's a directory you can look at thru this little server component:
http://nirvana.userland.com/misc/rel200.xml
Now I'll hear a crashing loud noise about namespaces and where's my DTD and
all that stuff. The point is, there should be a DTD for this type of
object. They appear on all of our computers, they're called folders.
Where's the XML spec for folders?
Dave
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