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Yes. When I had some input to the IETM db spec Bryan Caporlette designed, I set the SGML Declaration to limit the recursion depth. It was arbitrary on my part but every now an then, someone would use a system tag to get down to switches and it was a "who cares" situation, or the mapping from the source relational db was funky and again, it went very deep. I used to count the indentation number and use it as a rough estimate of system complexity. Don't go there. It is a portal to hell. ;-) len -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@r...] On Thursday 17 January 2002 09:38 am, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > But any tool > that will select/match a nest is a good idea beyond > eyeballing it because any recursing element will > make you curse right along with it. Interestingly, most DTD's, and certainly most instances, have markup depths of no more than 8 levels or so (often 3 to 5). I think this is becaus people have a natural limit of stacking, and anything more results in "stack overflow, brain dumped" problems. The deepest (I think) I ever saw for constrained (ie. required) nesting was the MILSPEC stuff.
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