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"Simon St.Laurent" <[email protected]>
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At 12:38 AM 9/30/00 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: >> but servers process XPointer, >> not clients -- right?. > >No. Used in a query string, XPointers could be processed by the server, resulting in much less network overhead. It's a cheap form of querying, but there do seem to be a lot of people interested in such activity. >> the >> server processes it and returns the located data to the client. > >Yes, and then the client locates the relevant part of this resource using >the fragment identifier. In some cases, that's great, but in others it's a giant waste of network resources. Good for the networking companies, though! Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books