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Periodic updating of documents

In cases where the information contained in documents changes periodically, such as on a daily or even an hourly basis, it may be more appropriate to regenerate the documents periodically than to generate them on the fly. There is obviously a trade-off between the time taken to generate the information, with the subsequent delay to the browser and load on the system, and the space taken up with cached information.

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