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Some time ago I wrote a structured editor where I parsed java source and allowed the user to edit an action diagram. The editor looked after the nesting of compound statements/methods etc. I allowed the user to free type method calls, assignments and conditions. The problem was that I could not reliably re-parse the source if it contained syntax errors. A single } could unhinge the whole scheme. The answer was to use XML to delimit the gross structure of the program source and to let the user type whatever they wanted - but not structure tags. Program source can then be reliably re-parsed. Aside. I am still working towards this goal but have become stuck in the XML/DOM tar pit. I have been working on the idea of compiled XML but came to the realization that the internal structure was not very different from DOM. However, when making the conversion I discover that DOM has been designed with desktop bloatware in mind. The NodeList requirement is one of the worst. The compile function idea still works. You get a binary representation of a DOM tree. This occupies half the size of the original XML and requires no parsing to re-load. The original XML is still recoverable. 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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