Re: p:catalog

On 4/6/07, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Alex Milowski writes:
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> > While caching has been declared dead, this is a great solution
> > for a user of a pipeline in that they can run two separate pipelines.
> > One produces a set of documents that are put into the catalog
> > or cache and the second uses that cache via an implementation
> > defined feature.
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> Don't agree -- still wouldn't work for Richard, as I understand his
> objection (consider again the stylesheet with an xsl:include), and if
> it _would_ work, however it would work would be appropriate for
> 'fixing' my proposal to add a 'cache' port to p:group.


Applications cache "GET" requests on http urls all the time.  I can't
see how we can disallow an implementation from allowing a user that
option when they deploy their pipeline.


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--Alex Milowski
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