ReferenceBrowserWidget call to absolute_url() loads referenced object

[ploneBeau]

I'm new to Plone but I've researched a bit and can't seem to found out why this is happening.

I have a template page which retrieves a ReferenceBrowserWidget and call the absolute_url() method on it. The problem is that this results in plone retrieving the entire XML object the url points to. Is there any way to prevent this?