- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:53:47 -0500
- To: mirsad.todorovac@fer.hr
- Cc: glenn@stonehand.com, mirsad.todorovac@fer.hr, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>Is there any hope that there could be at least a particular >solution, instead of saying "It shouldn't be done at all, because in >complex documents it becomes infeasible" ? Nope, it's absolutely impossible to do reliably for HTML in any SGML-conformant manner. Go back through the archives, and you'll find that I've already outlined these problems. Basically, it amounts to this: you have to keep the previous peices around, and when you download a new peice, tack it on the end, and reparse the whole document. You also need very robust error handling for the cases where the document is incomplete.
Received on Thursday, 18 January 1996 09:00:12 UTC