If it's for identification rather than retrieval, maybe it could be an
Identity Construct...except Identity Constructs got nuked in
format-06...not necessarily dereferencable. Another option would be to
identify whether you need to continue by checking whether you've seen
the "prev" link before. Would not that be as reliable as checking the
"this" link?
On Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 12:10 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
You need to be able to figure out which documents you've seen before
and which ones you haven't, so you don't recurse down the entire
stack. Although you can come up with some heuristics to determine when
you've seen a document before, most (if not all) of them can be fooled
by particular sequences of entries. Remembering which ones you've seen
(using their 'this' URI) allows you to easily figure this out.
On 28/06/2005, at 8:48 PM, Antone Roundy wrote:
Thinking a little more about this, I'm not sure what the "this" link
would be used for. The "prev" link seems to be doing all the work,
and especially assuming a "batches of 15" sort of model, the "this"
link seems likely to end up pointing to a document that's going to
disappear soon 14 times out of 15.
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Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
