Re: [xml-dev] Word 2003 custom schema limitations

[Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>]

Hi,

XSL processors impose a limit. The XSL below will give an error message 
after some number has been hit. I don't know how to configure it. But, I 
have always appreciated that it throuws an error with an informative 
message.

<root>
   <item id="1">
    <item idref="2"/>
   </item>
   <item id="2">
    <item idref="1"/>
   </item>
</root>

then you have something like XSLT that does:

<xsl:template match="/">
   <boo>
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </boo>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="item">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:if test="@idref">
       <xsl:variable name="idref" select="@idref"/>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="//*[@id=$idref]"/>
     </xsl:if>
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>



Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> I've run into this before but not in Word.   In the SGML Declaration,
> you could limit the depth of recursive elements.  I had to do that for
> some projects.  Word must have an inbuilt analog to the Declaration
> restriction.
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing how many XML systems have these
> restrictions and how they are exposed (error msgs seems sort of
> Draconian) and configured (hardwired or in an option box).  
> 
> len
> 
> 
> From: Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca [mailto:Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca] 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Yes, there is a lot of recursion (in sections, lists, etc.).   I am just
> 
> surprised that no one has run into this before.  Maybe no one is using 
> Word to edit XML using custom schemas.
> 
> Nadia 
> 
> 
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