Re: ERB call on addressing from Gavin Nicol on 1997-03-28 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from March 1997)

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 00:18:22 GMT
To: matt@wdi.disney.com
CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <199703280018.AAA02685@wiley.EBT.COM>

>After perusing this thread a bit, I think Gavin's right that we need to
>distinguish this from just query syntax, but for the sake of the client not the
>server.  If we consider the Xptr as a query, then we always need to go back to
>the server.  If we consider it as an address, then a client can use a cached
>document to resolve it.  It could also be construed as an implicit agreement
>with the server that whatever comes back has a fairly stable existence.

Yes. This can have a *large* impact on performance.

Received on Thursday, 27 March 1997 19:20:12 UTC