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David Megginson wrote: > Tyler Baker writes: > > > > Preprocess your information, whatever its source. > > > > From an entire database. Pass over the entire document tree and > > prepreprocess everything before actually presenting it to the > > application. This is not practical. In my limited experience on > > these matters I have seen this tried before and with horrendous > > results. Nevertheless, it does not take a computer scientist to > > see the real world problem with this approach. > > That would be silly -- lazy evaluation works fine for this kind of > thing. I hate to sound stupid, but I still fail to see how Namespaces > causes any problems at all for someone dynamically generating a > document from a database -- if you want to use names with a URI part, > use them; if not, don't. Well you have the choice of doing an entire pass over the document and building a map directly or else try and lazily evaluate things and then cache the results of the namespace processing. Then for each time you find a node, you need to look it up in a hashtable somehow. Hashtables are cheap, but not that cheap if you need to do a table lookup for every node you process. So iterating over the entire source tree and building an indexed table may in some circumstances be more efficient than the lazy approach. But you are still faced with the problem of illegal XML Names. If you write the DOM Document out to an XML file or stream you will be emitting illegal XML Names unless you have some URI -> prefix hack to get things back to legal XML. Tyler xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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