When displaying a large number of objects, it may be impractical to display all of the data at once. While the approach used in figure 3 is practical for a small group of employees, it is impractical for browsing the employees of a large company. For this reason, the dtml-in tag provides support for batch processing.
Information is displayed in batches.
The original query string given in a get request with the form variable named in the start attribute removed. The batch size used. The variable is true when the first element is displayed, and when the first element displayed is not the first element in the sequence. The index, starting from 0, of the start of the batch previous to the current batch. The index, starting from 0, of the end of the batch previous to the current batch.