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

[Thorsten Behrens <tbehrens@suse.com>]

Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> 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?
>
> I can't imagine that any application would likely work directly on the
> xml representation.
>
Right. We're talking about import/export filters here - for those, I
would think absolute or relative references are equivalent in
computational complexity (aka big-O). As a first cut,
implementations could simply maintain integer counters for the
components of interest, updated as the file gets imported /
exported.

Cheers,

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