:)

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.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Diamond" <jason@[...].org> 
To: <xml-dev@[...].org> 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Auto-completion in editors (RE: [xml-dev] 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@[...].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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