I think a good way of doing this would be to write an STX transform as a
preprocessing filter to the XSLT transform. STX is described at
stx.sourceforge.net. It is an XSLT-like transformation language that
processes a SAX stream serially, without building a tree. It is
therefore very suitable for writing a filter that reduces the size of
the tree that XSLT has to deal with.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Gunther Schadow
> Sent: 05 March 2003 17:30
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> Subject:  Anyone knows of an autocompleting SAX parser or filter?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sometimes I transform large files and it takes long. What I 
> then do is to take a snapshot of the XML output and load it 
> into a text editor, cut incomplete tails off at a suitable 
> point and then close all open tags. Then I can forward this 
> file to other transforms.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice if one could tell the SAX Parser (i.e. 
> aelfred) that instead of throwing all hands up if the file 
> ends prematurely, close all open tags and finish the file 
> gracefully? Is there such a thing?
> 
> Since I am a disciple of Aelfred and Saxon I am most 
> interested in a generic solution (not one that would ask me 
> to migrate so some other parser). I could imagine a little 
> SAX filter that would receive events from an upstream parser 
> and keep a simple stack of open elements. Then if it receives 
> a SAXParserException from the upstream parser, it will simply 
> pop the elements to close from the stack and produce 
> endElement events from those.
> 
> Simple enough that I will eventually just do it. But has 
> anybody done it already?
> 
> thanks,
> -Gunther
> 
> PS: and no, I do not care whether the result document 
> conforms to some schema or whether there may be broken 
> forward references in the data. All I want is a well-formed output.
> 
> -- 
> Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.                    
> gschadow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Medical Information Scientist      Regenstrief Institute for 
> Health Care
> Adjunct Assistant Professor        Indiana University School 
> of Medicine
> tel:1(317)630-7960                         
> http://aurora.regenstrief.org
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