RE: [office-collab] How do we count? - September 26, 2012

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

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?
> 
> That seems like a significant and unavoidable burden.  I was a
> hardware guy in school, not a software/algorithms guy, but that has to
> be unpleasant big-O behavior!  Or am I (hopefully!) wrong in my
> understanding?

I can't imagine that any application would likely work directly on the
xml representation. I would envision that the information is parsed when
the file is opened and converted into the applications own data
structures. Only when the file is saved again do the numerical
references need to be created (or adjusted if an application decided to
keep them.)

Andreas

-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA
Concordia University College of Alberta

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