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@[...].com> 
To: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@[...].net> ; <xml-dev@[...].org>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:02 PM
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Auto-completion in editors (RE: [xml-dev] 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
> 
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