Re: xmllink-970406 various

At 11:54 AM 4/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>client user agent to do this.  I may be confused on this point, 
>>but it also appears that a complete instance is always returned 
>>and the user agent must resolve the query. 
>
>This is incorrect.
>
>>concurrent integrated development environments.  Where the 
>>enterprise is large, the product complex, and the developers 
>>are geographically distributed, stored queries are vital 
>>to coping with the dynamic aspects of workflow.  
>
>Sure, but unless the results are deterministic, you cannot 
>*interoperate*.
>

There are times when you want queries to be deterministic and times when
you do not. A periodically executed, data harverster is a query that relies on
the fact that the result set will change per run...Isn't it?

Sean
digitome@iol.ie

Received on Wednesday, 9 April 1997 12:44:53 UTC