Re: [xml-dev] Re: ***SPAM*** [xml-dev] Re: The Goals of XML at 25,and th

[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 22/07/2021 15:44, Arjun Ray wrote:
>  On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:04:19 +0200, Marcus Reichardt
> <u123724@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> I think the case for parallelized processing (where, apparently, you 
> could start parsing anywhere) is over-stated.  It seems to
> implicitly assume that the entirety of the source document is already
> available,

Which in the document field (eg Humanities encoded texts, books,
articles in journals, etc) is almost certainly true.

But IMHO it's moot anyway: modern software and hardware can easily cope
with swallowing the entire works of Shakespeare in a single gulp, and
probably have space for the sonnets too, as well as the XSLT to process
them.

Even as far back as the days of Netscape Navigator and the Panorama
plugin, a 386 PC could download a megabyte of encoded text *and* the
stylesheet and display the document in a few seconds. We solved the
"start *here* and show me an integral fragment with its context"
requirement with a copy of PAT (thank you, Tim) and a shell script and
some Omnimark.

Peter