• To: 'Paul Prescod' <paul@p...>, "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Auto-completion in editors (RE: ANN: XML Origin, the XML Editor & XSLT Debugger Released)
• From: Nicolas LEHUEN <nicolas.lehuen@u...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:29:11 +0100

I don't usually open hundred megabytes documents in an editor, and if I had
do so, I'm OK if the editor disable its auto-completion feature.

Regards,
Nicolas

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]
>Envoye : lundi 28 janvier 2002 22:51
>A : xml-dev@l...
>Objet : Re:  Auto-completion in editors (RE: 
> ANN: XML
>Origin, the XML Editor & XSLT Debugger Released)
>
>
>Michael Kay wrote:
>> 
>>...
>> 
>> 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)?
>
>Well obviously there are a variety of architectural choices that will
>influence the difficulty of adding one more feature. Still, I think I
>can answer this particular question generically by saying, what happens
>when the user scrolls a hundred megabytes down in the document and
>inserts the cursor? 
>
> Paul Prescod
>
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