Re: Dealing with large collections

[Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:35:24 -0700, Greg Stein <gstein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > >I think it is also valid to ask Atom client authors whether they need all
> > >of those inputs. 

Probably not, but:

> > >Does sort order matter? 

/Prior/ to selecting results, yes. Order of the results is just a convenience..

> > >Are date ranges important? 

Yes, I think so. One common requirement is to display blog archives
e.g. per month, it ought to be possible to do that dynamically.
Another use might be to flag as expired articles age > 6 months.

Or is
> > >fetching of N posts at a time sufficient?

Which N posts? For what purpose?

Cheers,
Danny.

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