1. DAV Searching & Locating Saveen Reddy Dec 8, 1997

2. Things to Think About Efficient Searching Properties & Content Data Model for Resources Query Language(s) Results Language(s) Typing Simple vs. Complex Properties

3. Relationship to DAV No changes to DAV protocol orthogonal extension: new Method + some XML definitions

4. General Requirements Found in draft-reddy-dasl- requirements-00.txt The basic problem: No efficient way to do this –Terms: Search Criteria, Result Set, Result Record, Search, Scope

5. Criteria –Boolean Expressions: AND, OR, NOT –Relative Comparisons –Simple Searches on Content (Exact, “substring”, regex matching) –Variants –NEAR operator

6. Results Result Record Definition Standardized Results Format Result Record Definition Standardized Results Format Paged Search Results

7. Search Qualifiers Search Scope Search Depth Search References

8. Search Query Syntax Simple Query Syntax Extensible Query Syntax Query Syntax Discovery

9. Miscellaneous Access Control Internationalization

10. DAV Searching & Locating DASL “dazzle” URL: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/dasl “subcribe” to www-webdav-dasl-request @w3.org