RE: [xml-dev] Attribute Lengths Using MSXML Sax Parser

["Phil Fuhlman" <pfuhlman@Dexma.com>]

Yes, MSXML* supports SAX...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/sdk_intro_6g53.asp

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-----Original Message-----
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:22 PM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Attribute Lengths Using MSXML Sax Parser


At 1:27 PM -0600 1/12/04, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Just to be perverse, here is an actual XML question?
>Is there a length limit on attribute content when using
>a SAX parser?  To be specific, the MSXML SAX parser.
>

That I couldn't tell you. Does MSXML even support SAX? In general 
with standard Java SAX there is no specified limit, and theoretically 
a parser with sufficient memory should be able to handle an attribute 
value of up to approximately 2.1 billion characters (the maximum size 
of a Java String) though I doubt any real VM could handle that 
without choking. Maybe the experimental 64-bit VM on a system with a 
a terabyte or so of virtual memory? You might hit such a limit if you 
were trying to do something like stuffing a base-64 encoded movie in 
an attribute value.

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@metalab.unc.edu
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
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