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RE: Managing Innovation

• To: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Managing Innovation
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:59:18 -0400
• In-reply-to: <1065131067.3933.22.camel@z...>

rjm@z... (Rick Marshall) writes:
>> 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)?
>
>do you mean like once computer generated namespaces and random names
>get involved? i can see it happening within a few years.

I'd heard of 220-character local names and 200-char namespaces.  I
suspect it could get a lot worse.  

Hmmm... maybe I should come up with a set of escaping rules for URIs so
they can be the prefix directly...

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