Re: Polyglot markup and authors

On 2013-02-19 00:12, Noah Mendelsohn wrote:
>
> On 2/18/2013 4:18 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Unless your XSLT engine indeed renders incrementally (which IMHO is the
>> case for IE's). And yes, it limits the complexity of the XPath
>> expressions
>> you use in the XSLT.
>
> Just curious: does using an XPath that "looks ahead" really not work, or
> does it just prevent streaming behavior? I would have thought that if
> someone was building a streaming transform system they would produce
> output when possible given the input received so far, and in other cases
> wait until sufficient input is buffered. Is IE doing something else?
> ...

No, as far as I recall, this is exactly what IE is doing.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 08:22:20 UTC