Document-URI is still a problem unless either we eliminate Send-URI (my
preference) or eliminate document-URI as a job attribute until a later
version.
Although we previously decided not design a format for per-document
attributes until a later version, I pointed out that an attribute 'foo'
could take on a "dictionary" value whose values might be "default=XYZ"
and "3=ABC" to indicate that the job level 'foo' attribute has a value
of "XYZ" and document-3 has a value of "ABC". Such a solution is not
precluded by the current design.
Bob Herriot
> From rturner@sharplabs.com Sun Sep 21 09:49:57 1997
>
> Ok, so we have these actual document attributes that we could admittedly move
> into "job document attributes" just to save us the work this time of actually doing
> the work to support document attributes. This might be
> problematic for future implementations that actually *DO* the
> document attribute model correctly, having to be backward-compatible
> with our "hacked" version of document attributes of IPP 1.0.
>
> I thought maybe we could allow a placeholder in the model/protocol for
> V 1.0 for document attributes, so that we could easily integrate this in
> the future with very little work.
>
> Concerning the "job-document-attribute" proposal...
> I'm assuming that the send-document operation allows these "job-document"
> attributes to be included (I can't remember the send-document specifics from the
> model document...).
>
> Randy
>
> Ira Mcdonald x10962 wrote:
>
> > Hi Randy,
> >
> > I think we agreed that JOBs could have descriptive attributes
> > (either single- or multi-valued??) about the associated
> > document(s), which apply unless (in a future version of IPP)
> > they are overridden at the (future) DOCUMENT object level.
> >
> > I speculate that the following JOB level attributes are
> > necessary or desirable in IPP 1.0:
> >
> > [job]document-name
> > [job]document-URI (to support Send-URI)
> > [job]document-format
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Ira McDonald (outside consultant at Xerox)
> > High North In
> > 906-494-2434
>
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