RE: [xml-dev] Auto-completion in editors (RE: [xml-dev] ANN: XML Origin, the XML Editor & XSLT Debugger Released)

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:]
>Envoye : lundi 28 janvier 2002 22:51
>A : 
>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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