[ Thanks to S.Ramaswamy for this link.
]
“WebDAV is a universal solution for distributed
authoring”
“…the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working
on a standard protocol for group editing known as the Distributed
Authoring and Versioning protocol for the Web (WebDAV). This
technology is an extension of the HyperText Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) itself, and can be handled in the same way. WebDAV was
released last year and has already been implemented in professional
tools such as Adobe’s GoLive and the open-source WebCT.”
“WebDAV is an extension of HTTP that uses the Extensible
Markup Language (XML) to insert properties and version-control
information into the metadata of a document. XML comes in
handy mainly because it is extensible and can have any number of
new properties added to a document. (It also supports international
character sets.)”
“There are a number of predefined properties in WebDAV that
exist for all documents. Most of those properties are basic
information such as the creation date, author names, the content’s
language and length, the date it was last modified, etc. This new
authoring system introduces a new type of Web resource known as a
collection. Collections identify a group of objects or documents
that share common properties. The collection resource can replace
the traditional concept of a hierarchy of files and directories
that make up a Website. A Web collection does not impose a
hierarchy or structure on its members, making it flexible enough to
describe groups of files, devices, or application objects.”