On 10 November 2013 09:36, Adrian Mcmenamin <acm...@york.ac.uk> wrote:
> That was obviously meant to state 2^32, sorry > > > On 10 November 2013 09:34, Adrian Mcmenamin <acm...@york.ac.uk> wrote: > >> I am parsing a very large file and the parsing seems to fail on a (bogus) >> fatal error once I get over about 2^16 lines (on line 4,295,025,275 to be >> precise). Is there a hard limit on file sizes that can be parsed? >> > > I deleted approximately 1 billion lines from the file, while ensuring it was still well-formed XML, and this time the parse failed on line 4,295,015,171 - so I am very confident there is some sort of overflow bug in xerces-c's handling of very large XML files.
