Peter B. West wrote: > Victor, I think you may have misinterpreted an aspect of > Defoe's design. > The re-parsing (of attribute data) is only required for > static-content and markers. Even then, it is not essential, > merely the simplest way to achieve the result, given a stream > of pre-parsed (in SAX terms) events. > I'm quite happy with serializing the partial results where > rendering cannot be resolved due to forward references. I > don't see auto table layout and other localized look-ahead > requiring this.
Now that you mention it, I recall you saying something about a "temporary data structure" (IIRC), to which I replied "sounds like an FO Tree", to which I never received a substantive reply. My apologies -- I didn't mean to misrepresent Defoe. I have some other comments on the table layout and look-ahead issues, but I'll make them to you off-line, because I think the FOP folks don't want the design conversations here. My apologies for my part in starting this thread. Simon's original comment could be interpreted in either a general or specific way, and I just wanted to clarify that aspect of it. I didn't mean to start a debate at all. Victor Mote
