> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joe Zitzelberger
>
> Well, for sufficiently large xml documents, it blows the
> address space up when using a DOM model.
>
> IBMs Cobol can play nicely in a 32-bit world. But IBM gave
> up half of that to keep the Luddites happy. The OS and other
> miscellaneous stuff consume a nice chunk of what is left. An
> IBM Cobol program manipulating an xml dom has a practical
> maximum of about a 30.5-bit space.
>
> One and a half gig isn't exactly small, but it isn't beyond
> the realm of reality in this day and age.
True enough, but something like the _Oxford English Dictionary_, or _War and
Peace_, as an XML document?
Thanks, but make mine .PDF.
-jc-
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