RE: [XPath] known documents/collections

• From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
• Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:27:52 -0000
• To: "'Martin Duerst'" <duerst@w3.org>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <002101c3f41b$556591c0$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

> 
> The purpose of known documents/collections (both static and
> dynamic) needs to be better explained. For example, in the 
> general case, is 'dynamic available documents' equivalent to 
> all the documents on the Web?
> 
For some processors, the "dynamically available documents" will consist
of the public web, or that part of the public web that your proxy server
allows you to reach. For others it may consist only of the documents in
the database that the query was compiled against. For an XSLT
transformer running on a Mars landing craft it may be an empty set. For
other processors it may include documents in parts of the web that
require credentials to be supplied. It all depends, which is why we've
explictly made it contextual.

Michael Kay
(speaking personally)

Received on Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:27:11 UTC