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:) Reparse or keep some sort of index of the document in a table/tree/graph. A space vs. time tradeoff, as one of my professors at GA Tech loved to state is the primary tradeoff that most algorithms have to make in real-world applications. -- THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #118 If I have equipment which performs an important function, it will not be activated by a lever that someone could trigger by accidentally falling on when fatally wounded. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Diamond" <jason@i...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:25 PM Subject: Re: Auto-completion in editors (RE: ANN: XML Origin, the XML Editor & XSLT Debugger Released) > 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> > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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