Trying to enable WebDAV on Apache 2.0: What is a container?

I can't figure out what a container is.

[daschu]

Hello.

I'm trying to set up a WebDAV server on Mac OS X 10.4. I installed Apache 2.0, but without any options or anything when I did $./configure. Now I want to set up that server, but all the docs that I can find aren't very useful. The one that I think would be most useful is the Apache provided documentation, but it says that I need to add "Dav On" to my httpd.conf file inside a container. But I can't figure out what a container is.

Thank you for you help, David

[jdMorgan]

daschu,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

A container is used to control the context under which a directive such as "Dav On" is invoked. Some containers are <VirtualHost>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, <Files>, <FilesMatch>, <Location>, <LocationMatch>, <Limit>, and <LimitExcept>. These containers are listed in the Apache core documentation [httpd.apache.org], and are characterized by being enclosed in <>.

Jim