Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT streaming: the processor "remembers" things as it descends the XML tree? From: Michael Sokolov <msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:21:06 -0500 |
, but the consequence of *not* rem On 11/20/2013 04:00 PM, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I think it would be very interesting to see a survey of how deep XML documents go in the wild. Except for pathological cases, I think they would rarely go beyond 20 deep. Of course this will vary a great deal by document type.I think that what Roger points out is useful: probably the concept of "streaming" needs to be redefined and something needs to be specified about a limit of the "maximum document depth".
Ignoring this leaves us with what actually could serve as the base for yet another type of DOS attack. Not only malicious, but just accidental -- imagine a buggy program failing to write closing element tags ...
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