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[Thorsten Behrens]

Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 15:43 -0600, John Haug wrote: > > So each time an arbitrary change is rejected or the document content > > is altered (change-tracked or not), the numerical references of > > some/all the change tracking markup may be invalidated and must be > > recalculated by the application, right? > > I can't imagine that any application would likely work directly on the > xml representation. > Right. We're talking about import/export filters here - for those, I would think absolute or relative references are equivalent in computational complexity (aka big-O). As a first cut, implementations could simply maintain integer counters for the components of interest, updated as the file gets imported / exported. Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg; GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Attachment: pgpXASOJGxeqb.pgp Description: PGP signature