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> From: Zielinski, Marek [mailto:mzielinski@gma.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 7:47 PM
> To: 'Xml-Dev (E-mail)
> Subject: [xml-dev] Will "AT&T" fit in a string attribute with
> maxLength="4"?
>
>
> I am trying to define restrictions on string lengths using
> Schema. The data
> actually comes from databases, and is exchanged between two different
> systems. I encountered a snag: when the string contains one of
> the reserved
> characters, like "&", the parser automatically translates it into
> an entity,
> e.g. &. This increases the length of the string, and now the
> string does
> not fit; the validator (I am using XMLSpy) rejects it as too long.
Seems to be clearly a bug in XMLSpy.
> I could add a couple of characters to the maxLength restriction, but this
> defeats the purpose of length limit. Besides, to be safe I would need to
> make the limit about 4 times larger than the intended limitation on the
> actual string length. (i.e. if want to limit string to 4 chars, and the
> string happens to be "&&&&")
>
> Any solution? Any way to make the parser decode the entity before checking
> the string length?
They are supposed to do that.
Julian
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