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

["Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>]

OK, I checked with Umut and he says the parser has no built-in limit on
attribute size.  However, the attribute value will be cached so you
should consider the size of machine memory to be a limit.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Fuhlman [mailto:pfuhlman@Dexma.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:54 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Attribute Lengths Using MSXML Sax Parser
> 
> Yes, MSXML* supports SAX...
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
> us/xmlsdk/htm/sdk_intro_6g53.asp
> 
> </pff>
> 
> -----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.
> 
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