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Yes. When I had some input to the IETM
db spec Bryan Caporlette designed,
I set the SGML Declaration to limit
the recursion depth. It was arbitrary on my
part but every now an then, someone would
use a system tag to get down to switches
and it was a "who cares" situation, or the
mapping from the source relational db was
funky and again, it went very deep. I used
to count the indentation number and use it
as a rough estimate of system complexity.
Don't go there. It is a portal to hell. ;-)
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@rbii.com]
On Thursday 17 January 2002 09:38 am, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> But any tool
> that will select/match a nest is a good idea beyond
> eyeballing it because any recursing element will
> make you curse right along with it.
Interestingly, most DTD's, and certainly most instances, have markup
depths of no more than 8 levels or so (often 3 to 5). I think this is
becaus people have a natural limit of stacking, and anything more
results in "stack overflow, brain dumped" problems.
The deepest (I think) I ever saw for constrained (ie. required)
nesting was the MILSPEC stuff.
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