Re: [DotGNU]System.Xml

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, Simon Guindon wrote:
> XmlDocument.LoadXml uses XmlTextReader to load structure into XmlDocument.

IIRC XmlTextReader is a constant memory read method (or that's the way
I think it works...) 

So LoadXml should do the appending with XmlTextReader doing the reading 
stuff ...


> My initial thoughts were that XmlTextReader ONLY did parsing of the text,
> and the DOM creation happened in XmlDocument, but used XmlTextReader to
> parse.

This seems to be the behaviour required ... 


Btw, while looking over minddog's initial stuff ... I noticed an enormous
nesting of if/else and switch statement ... It's getting a bit too confusing
for me to debug or hack ... Could we do like a predictive parser like thing ?

switch(lookAhead)
{
case '<':
        ReadChar();
        ReadTag();
}

I'm not asking for a refactoring or anything like that ... but I am just 
talking from the angle of a maintanence programmer ...

Gopal
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