Re: EBML specification component for review - Element Data Size

Moritz Bunkus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hey,

> Actually, handling unknown sizes seems to make parsing significantly
> harder. Tracking the boundary of the end of the current parent segment
> is not enough. You also have to keep track which elements are
> (theoretically) possible at all in a given context, so you can
> properly switch back to the grandparent segment if an element is
> specified not to be possible in the current segment.

I see your point. Limiting the use in some way seems like a good thing.

Kind regards,
mosu

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