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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.. best regards, murali. I think it is argument of engineering based on current experiences, hoping that it will hold for ever/reasonably long time. Even I am not sure if we should have such limits in standards. On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, David Megginson wrote: > Rick Marshall writes: > > > that's what ibm said 20 years ago and every design since has had to > > cope with 640k base memory ranges and other "that'll be more than > > enough" decisions. > > I understand that argument well, but in this case, we're not talking > about limiting the overall length of XML documents. Let's try not to > imagine only the present, but the future as well -- can anyone make a > reasonable case for an XML element or attribute name longer than 4096 > characters (for example)? > > > All the best, > > > David
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