Re: nxml-mode faces

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Does anyone have any objection to the patch below, which makes use of
> existing font-lock faces rather than inventing an entirely separate
> color scheme?

I have nothing against it, but I cc the emacs nxml mailing list if 
someone there has any comments. (In fact I am using this color scheme 
already in nXhtml, since fontification there may be done by xhtml-mode 
even though nxhtml-mode (derived from nxml-mode) is used.)

There is another problem with fontification in nxml-mode. The 
fontification routines works very differently from the normal font lock 
scheme. If I understand and remember correctly fontification is done 
while parsing the file. I think James Clark implemented it this way to 
make it faster and perhaps it also allows more granularity.

However the fontification is a problem if you try to make nxml-mode 
coexist with other major modes in a buffer since nxml-mode parses the 
whole buffer and also wants to fontify the whole buffer.

But this is of course a problem to solve further on, it will take some time.