Re: [xml-dev] SAX characters event and external entities

Elliotte Rusty Harold <> writes:

> The theoretical maximum size of a Java array is 2.1 billion items
> (2^31 to be precise). Thus even with oodles of memory it's not always
> possible to  stuff everything into a single call, especially if you
> think there might be things like Base-64 encoded movies hiding in the
> XML document somewhere.

Cf. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2001JanMar/0114.html

Ari.