Re: Streaming basically impossible in the face of XPointers

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> What does Xinclude.Net do if it hits the end of a document it's been 
> streaming and suddenly encounters an XPointer that contains an 
> intradocument reference to earlier in the document?

No support for intra-document refs while streaming as I said.

> One implementation strategy I can imagine is to assume you can stream, 
> stream everything until you encounter an unstreamable reference, and 
> then dump everything and start over with a tree; but yuck. That's such a 
> kludge. Still, it might be plausible in environments where intradocument 
> references were fairly rare, and would be spec conformant.

Yeah, yuck.
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Oleg Tkachenko
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