• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:53:57 +0100

> Furthermore, the length of the content of <Author> is 
> unconstrained: it would be perfectly valid to place a billion 
> characters between the start tag and end tag.

It's not entirely unconstrained: the XML Schema specification goes out of
its way to say that the length must be finite. I regret to say that my
schema processor is non-conformant in this regard: it will not report a
validity error if you present it with an infinite string ;)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

• References:
  • The meaning of the "string" datatype?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>