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It sounds easy as long the user enters their elements in document order. But what do you do when they insert an element somewhere in the middle of the document? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...> To: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@p...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:02 PM Subject: RE: Auto-completion in editors (RE: ANN: XML Origin, the XML Editor & XSLT Debugger Released) > > I'll point out that Komodo behaves as you wish. I know why > > others don't, > > however. Implementing it efficiently is not easy if you want > > it to work > > well with large documents. You either have to parse from the top or > > parse backwards from where you are, counting open and close tags, > > watching out for CDATA sections. > > Surely an XML editor has to detect start tags and end tags as they are > typed, and if it detects start tags, it is trivially easy to maintain a > stack of open start tags? And the cost of doing so is unrelated to the size > of the document (only to the depth of nesting)? > > Mike Kay > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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