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I think the tricky part comes when the user jumps (mouse, keyboard action) to another part of the document - where/how do you pick up the context? where and how do you save the current context? This is more then an idle response - if anyone has good ideas for coping with that, i'd be very interested. Dave LeBlanc > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@n...] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 13:03 > To: 'Paul Prescod'; xml-dev@l... > 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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