Hi all, I'm just playing with XML around and have noticed strange behavior of MS Internet Explorer 5.0 : - if I let the MS IE display SMALL xml-file, everything seems to be O.K. - if I let the MS IE display A BIT BIGGER xml-file, everything goes wrong - IE is hard-working for a very long time (tens of minutes per megabyte of data), consuming nearly all system resources and later in time the system runs out of memory, MS IE crashes and doesn't release the swapper allocated. I tried this with files validated by XML-Spy 2.5 (so I suppose these files should be O.K.). These files were approx. 1,2 - 1,6 MB of data - I suppose it's not too much, if XML should be used for transparent data exchange .... it consumed 270 MB of swap, 128 MB of physical memory and then crashed under circumstances I described above. The parsing of these files took tens of minutes not downloading of data (the program, which generated the xml-file send it over the network in about 1.5 second and reading of static file saved in the same disk from which IE was started resulted in the same manner). MS IE on all MS Windows 95 / NT / 2K is affected so I suppose this is really bug inside MS IE and not in the virtual-memory-handling routines (maybe I'm not right, but I don't think these routines are common to all MS-Windows platforms. If MS IE is designed to handle only small pieces of XML-data, it should pop-up an alert window or whatelse to inform the user that the file is too big and couldn't be parsed. Don't you think so ? If this was already published before, my apologies. With best regards, David Komanek
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