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<title abbrev='WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol'>Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered Collections Protocol</title>
<author initials='J.' surname='Whitehead' fullname='Jim Whitehead'>
<organization abbrev='U.C. Santa Cruz'>UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>1156 High Street</street>
<city>Santa Cruz</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>95064</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email></address></author>
<author initials='J. F.' surname='Reschke' fullname='Julian F. Reschke' role='editor'>
<organization abbrev='greenbytes'>greenbytes GmbH</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>Salzmannstrasse 152</street>
<city>Muenster</city>
<region>NW</region>
<code>48159</code>
<country>Germany</country></postal>
<phone>+49 251 2807760</phone>
<facsimile>+49 251 2807761</facsimile>
<email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>
<uri>http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</uri></address></author>
<date month='December' year='2003' />
<workgroup>WEBDAV Working Group</workgroup>
<keyword>WebDAV</keyword>
<keyword>ordering</keyword>
<keyword>ordered collections</keyword>
<keyword>protocol</keyword>
<keyword>ORDERPATCH method</keyword>
<keyword>Position header</keyword>
<keyword>Ordering-Type header</keyword>
<abstract>
<t>
        This specification extends the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Protocol
        to support the server-side ordering of collection members. Of particular 
        interest are orderings that are not based on property values, and so 
        cannot be achieved using a search protocol's ordering option and cannot 
        be maintained automatically by the server.  Protocol elements are 
        defined to let clients specify the position in the ordering of each 
        collection member, as well as the semantics governing the ordering.        
      </t></abstract></front>

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