@article{Brabrand_Møller_Olesen_Schwartzbach_2001, title={Language-Based Caching of Dynamically Generated HTML}, volume={8}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/brics/article/view/20474}, DOI={10.7146/brics.v8i17.20474}, abstractNote={<p>Increasingly, HTML documents are dynamically generated by interactive Web<br />services. To ensure that the client is presented with the newest versions of such<br />documents it is customary to disable client caching causing a seemingly inevitable performance penalty. In the <bigwig> system, dynamic HTML documents are composed of higher-order templates that are plugged together to construct complete documents. We show how to exploit this feature to provide an automatic fine-grained caching of document templates, based on the service source code. A <bigwig> service transmits not the full HTML document but instead a compact JavaScript recipe for a client-side construction of the document based on a static collection of fragments that can be cached by the browser in the usual manner. We compare our approach with related techniques and demonstrate on a number of realistic benchmarks that the size of the transmitted data and the latency may be reduced significantly.</p>}, number={17}, journal={BRICS Report Series}, author={Brabrand, Claus and Møller, Anders and Olesen, Steffan and Schwartzbach, Michael I.}, year={2001}, month={May} }