"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
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,
they could be, but then they wouldn't be fragment identifiers. besides,
that s what the XML Query WG is cooking up, right?
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.
I agree lots of people are interested. Nothing against queries.
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.
Which is why we have both ? and #
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Chris