Properties
        Links
        Locking
        Reservations
        Retrieval of Unprocessed Source
        Partial Write
        Name Space Manipulation
        Collections




 
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        Versioning
        Variants
        Security
        Internationalization

3. Terminology

   Where there is overlap, usage is intended to be consistent with that
   in the HTTP 1.1 specification [HTTP].

   Client
        A program which issues HTTP requests and accepts responses.

   Collection
        A collection is a resource that contains other resources, either
        directly or by reference.

   Distributed Authoring Tool
        A program which can retrieve a source entity via HTTP, allow
        editing of this entity, and then save/publish this entity to a
        server using HTTP.

   Entity
        The information transferred in a request or response.

   Hierarchical Collection
        A hierarchical organization of resources.  A hierarchical
        collection is a resource that contains other resources,
        including collections, either directly or by reference.

   Link
        A typed connection between two or more resources.

   Lock
        A mechanism for preventing anyone other than the owner of the
        lock from accessing a resource.

   Member of Version Graph
        A resource that is a node in a version graph, and so is derived
        from the resources that precede it in the graph, and is the
        basis of those that succeed it.

   Property
        Named descriptive information about a resource.

   Reservation
        A declaration that one intends to edit a resource.





 
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   Resource
        A network data object or service that can be identified by a
        URI.

   Server
        A program which receives and responds to HTTP requests.

   User Agent
        The client that initiates a request.

   Variant
        A representation of a resource.  A resource may have one or more
        representations associated with it at any given time.

   Version Graph
        A directed acyclic graph with resources as its nodes, where each
        node is derived from its predecessor(s).

   Write Lock
        A lock that prevents anyone except its owner from modifying the
        resource it applies to.

4. General Principles

   This section describes a set of general principles that the WebDAV
   extensions should follow.  These principles cut across categories of
   functionality.