Null or Empty Tag Elements in XML

[AmyStephens]

POST GENERATED FROM JANUARY 2010 SURVEY RESULTS

Pros/Cons to carrying null or empty tag elements in XML

[JWTEKSA]

We use xml asour datasource for xPression and what we have learned is that it is best to remove null or empty xml tags since xPression can only consume a file size of 4MB (not 100% sure that is the right size). Since our xml size can be very large with null or empty xml tags included we had to remove them to allow xPression to consume the file.

We are running xPression 2.5 and using the PublishDocuments webservice call.

[kalyytik]

I'm used to running large batch jobs using xPression Batch Runner and I usually have the empty tags in the XML. XML file sizes are about 30MB at maximum. Have you considered that the 4MB limit may spring from your webservices set-up? It may be that your web-server limits the HTTP POST message to 4MB. I guess this should be configurable in your application server web container.

[JWTEKSA]

Actually it was EMC/DocSci who told us of the limitation. Maybe this is specific to our 2.5 and 2.1 environments.