> Is that still the recommendation? Or, are validators more sophisticated now and can handle large values for maxOccurs?
>
I think you will find that some are, some aren't, and with some - it
depends, based on where the maxOccurs lives in the content model. Saxon
these days is fine with a large maxOccurs at the top level of a content
model, but it can struggle if you have one within a choice especially if
the choice itself has a maxOccurs.
I still find it a little implausible that there are "business
requirements" not to have more than 500 Foo elements. What are these:
order lines in a purchase order? Employees in a department? Contact
names/addresses for a customer? I suspect they are not so much business
requirements as limits imposed by older IT (or paper) processing systems.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
