Max characters between <tags>?

[taffLawley]

Hi there,
im a noob to XML, and have started a search engine for our small flash site. My XML has this format atm:
<AllSWF>
<Site name="Biophysics" place="bio.swf">
<keyWords>
<desc>skin</desc>
<desc>hair</desc>
<desc>care</desc>
</keyWords>
<compText>Get an awful lot of content in here</compText>
</Site>
<Site name="Toxicology" place="toxic.swf">
<keyWords>
<desc>more</desc>
<desc>of</desc>
<desc>same</desc>
</keyWords>
<compText>Get an awful lot of content in here</compText>
</Site>
</AllSWF>

The way my search currently works is that it searches the keywords for the users string, if it finds it, it then looks in the <compText> tag for the context the word was found in, and kicks it back to the user in the sentence it was in. It also tell the user where it was found (name) and offers a link (where).

My CompText however sometimes becomes quite long, anything up to about 400 chars long. My editor seems to chop of the beginning of the content sometimes for no reason.
Is their a limit to the maximum number of chars I can have in compText, or should I download a different editor, Im using MM Dreamweaver atm.

I would appreciate any assistance anyone can give.
Many thanks.
Taff

 

[chiph]

It's a problem with your editor. Max length per the W3C spec is 2gb, but it might actually be a little less in practice.

XMLSpy is very very good (but expensive for an individual to purchase at ~$400 USD).

Chip H.


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[taffLawley]

Thanks a lot for your help Chip. I downloaded a freeware XML editor. I dont use XML very often, and only for small things so I dont think my boss would be too happy if I went out and spent another $400 on software :/

As you said it works fine with other software.
dreamweaver="Bad for long XML tags"

Taff