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On 24/05/2007, at 8:29 AM, Geoff Huston wrote:
There is one item here that I'm just not sure about:Minor question: shouldn't we introduce a maximum length here? I'd hate to reserve space for multi-megabyte blobs in a database for this :-)I have no idea in XML whether such a restriction is good / bad / indifferent / whatever. ***Does anyone have experience in this area of attempting to bound the length of text elements in XML-based protocols?
It's possible to restrict the minimum and maximum length of otherwise freeform strings with XML Schema Datatypes. It is also relatively trivial. It is harder to agree on a sensible maximum length, since there are so many reasonable choices that are driven primarily by preference.
-- bje
