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@[...].net]
> Envoye : lundi 28 janvier 2002 22:51
> A : xml-dev@[...].org
> Objet : Re: [xml-dev] Auto-completion in editors (RE: 
> [xml-dev] 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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