> > > My approach doesn't work (at least with microsoft web-folders). This
is
> > > because it applies to all the properties, and some of these are
> > > apparently treated specially. Having the resourcetype property not be
> > > <collection/> (exactly. Putting it in a CDATA section is too big a
> > > change, apparently) for a directory seems to break MS web-folders.
> >
> > I tried that before (use writeData everywhere), but it's not a good idea
to
> > do that when the property value is an XML node.
>
> Yes, so I found. Basically, slide tries to be extremely general all the
> way through (which is definately a good thing!), but we run into
> problems once we have to interface with the outside world - all
> surmountable problems, but it's hard to catch every point where extra
> processing is required.
No big surprise, I suppose ... Integration is always the main problem ;-)
> Hrmm. Yes, that sounds like a nice solution (though it's not exactly
> trivial to implement in absolute generality, it's not too hard to catch
> all the cases where it's ever likely to be an issue (unbalanced tags,
> loose special characters, etc, without bothering to check every little
> detail - that'd be too slow).
Agreed.
> If I have time soon (unfortunately highly unlikely - I'm snowed under
> with all sorts of things), I'll do this, but for now your current
> solution works.
Remy
