Jakob,
I have to agree with Marcus, that attributes of that length are in the
least unusual. Still, exceeding a quantity should result in invalid SGML,
but not truncate the export. I therefore suspect you are bumping up against
an implementation dependency of some sort.
The relevant quantities are:
ATTSPLEN (normalized length of a start-tag's attribute specification list)
LITLEN (which applies to the length of an attribute value after entity and
character references within it are interpreted)
NORMSEP (used to separate values in a list-valued attribute)
TAGLEN (length of a start-tag)
The Dev Guide says that ATTSPLEN, LITLEN, and TAGLEN can be increased up to
30 times their values in the reference concrete syntax (respectively, 960,
240, and 960).
--Lynne
At 03:04 AM 12/15/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jakob Fix wrote:
> I am doing some testing for export of a Frame (7.1) document to XML and
> SGML. I am particularly interested in the maximum length of attribute
> values. I found that there's not really a limit when exporting to XML
> (I tried 5kb of text). However, when exporting to SGML, it only exports
> the first 511 (!) bytes, not even 512.
Yebbut... why? I've never seen an attribute value that size. If I had a
value that big, I'd be looking for some further breakdown of it. Are you
sure that big a chunk is necessary to assist in the description of the
element?
> I do seem to remember that this value can be fixed/increased in the
> SGML declaration, however I can't find any documentation on which
> keyword corresponds to attribute value length. I tried LITLEN,
> ATTSPLEN, and some others, but even their current values are not set
> to 511 (or 512). Or is this limitation to be looked for elsewhere?
Some things can be changed in the SGML Declaration but the change won't be
reflected in FrameMaker. I would have thought that LITLEN would be the one
to change.
Lynne A. Price
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