xml parsing (SAX) buffer limits

[sinister]

Is there any good documentation of what sort of input buffer limits there
are for the expat parser used by PHP? I found out (by accident) that my
webhosting service's version has a 1024 byte limit.

[Amir Khawaja]

sinister wrote:

Is there any good documentation of what sort of input buffer limits there
are for the expat parser used by PHP? I found out (by accident) that my
webhosting service's version has a 1024 byte limit.

That sounds about right. You also have to remember that Expat uses
callback functions and reads data in blocks. This gives it an advantage
over DOM when reading large files. As long as your XML is file valid you
should not have problems.

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Amir Khawaja.

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[sinister]

"Amir Khawaja" <am**@gorebels.net> wrote in message
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sinister wrote:

Is there any good documentation of what sort of input buffer limits there are for the expat parser used by PHP? I found out (by accident) that my
webhosting service's version has a 1024 byte limit.

That sounds about right. You also have to remember that Expat uses
callback functions and reads data in blocks. This gives it an advantage
over DOM when reading large files. As long as your XML is file valid you
should not have problems.

Thanks for your reply.

It was a problem insofar as the code that used the results assumed that
there would never be two blocks of character data in a row.

-S