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