Hi, >>With the offset, you can start anywhere you want, without having to know >> about any previous entry. You could go to 'page 10' without having to >>read >> all the data up to 'page 9'. For paging in a GUI, the offset would be a >> simpler solution I believe. > >that's a good point. though, this relies on a value for the total number >of child nodes.
The "total page count" could be an estimate only (as in Google). Regards, Thomas
