On 6/11/05 10:12 AM, "Luke Arno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What exactly is a collection and what does it do?
I want to know this too.
Originally, I thought they was analogous to directories in a filing system.
The spec even said something like that. They were buckets into which an
entry could be stored. If entries were tangible things, and they were
scattered all over the floor, you could imagine scooping them up into
collections. Nice and tidy.
Now, I see people talking about them as if they are instead {magic sets},
complete with possibilities of overlapping and sub-setting, and entries are
not actually stored in a collection per se, they are simply members
referenced in any given collection. Entries exist, as entries, someplace
else, but that place is not specified, and though a new entry can be created
there by posting to a collection, that same entry can't be deleted via that
same path. No pace exists for deleting actual entries which presupposes the
collections are sets model.
The picture is not clear.
e.
