Subject: RE: Splitting file into N-sized chunks
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:53:02 +0100
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> Everytime you output a tag, whitespace or text you will have
> to keep track of its length. Since you will always have a
> static XHTML header and footer that wraps your content, you
> might pre-calculate that length rather than calculate it on the fly.
I suspect that level of accuracy isn't needed. A heuristic that says 500Kb
of serialized XHTML = 250K characters in text nodes is probably quite
adequate for the purpose.
Much more of a concern is how to handle the breaks sensibly if the content
is non-linear.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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