Names and HTTP 1.1 XML Extensions

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Property names translate to URI-scoped XML elements and vice versa when they are accessed using WebDAV. For example, the DAV:getcontentlength, DAV:resourcetype, and DAV:iscollection properties, which are defined within the DAV: namespace for a particular item, could be represented in a WebDAV XML stream as shown in the following XML fragment:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<a:multistatus
  xmlns:a="DAV:"
  xmlns:b="urn:uuid:c2f41010-65b3-11d1-a29f-00aa00c14882/"
>
<a:response>
<a:href>http://microsoft.com/path/resource.eml</a:href>
<a:propstat>
  <a:status>HTTP/1.1 OK</a:status>
  <a:prop>
    <a:getcontentlength>367</a:getcontentlength>
    <a:resourcetype><a:collection/></a:resourcetype>
    <a:iscollection b:dt="boolean">0</a:iscollection>
  </a:prop>
</a:propstat>