RE: [xml-dev] Managing Innovation

[David Megginson <dmeggin@attglobal.net>]

Murali Mani writes:

 > I also saw mentioning limiting depth of documents, do you believe
 > limiting width also?? You can have
 > 
 > <!ELEMENT a b*>
 > 
 > which can be potentially infinite..

I cannot think of a good, general argument for limiting document
length strong enough to overcome objections.  It is too easy to
imagine applications for XML documents of unbounded length.


All the best,


David