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Re: XLinks

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• Subject: Re: XLinks
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:08:53 +1100
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From: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>
 
> I think the most significant advantage that XPath 2 / XQuery will
> offer is "joins" to handle relationships that are implied
> by values rather than demanded by pointers.  This is exactly
> Date's point -- find relationships that exist at runtime with joins
> rather than hard-code them with links/pointers.  

Some documents represent a snapshot at the current time.
Some documents represents a snapshot at some particular time.

The former may require runtime resolution of links, but the latter
can well use hardcoded links (i.e. the named result of some 
previous query.)   

I  am not sure we need to deem that hardcoded links are good and 
queries are bad, or vice versa, if the question is really just one
of timing. 

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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