What is the max. size limt of XmlTextWriter?

[Terrence Chan]

Does anyone know the size limit of the StringWriter and XmlTextWriter.

Dim buffer As New System.IO.StringWriter
Dim writer As New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(buffer)

Please point me to some technical documents.

Thanks,
Terrence

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Terrence,
The size limit of a XmlTextWriter is the size of the underlying Stream (or
StreamWriter), the max size would be Int64.MaxValue (Long.MaxValue)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rlrfSystemXmlXmlTextWriterClassctorTopic2.asp

Length of a stream = Stream.Length
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../html/frlrfSystemIOStreamClassLengthTopic.asp


Now if you are really asking about the size limit of a StringWriter, then it
would be Int32.MaxValue (Integer.MaxValue) the capacity of the underlying
StringBuilder.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../html/frlrfSystemIOStringWriterClassTopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...temTextStringBuilderClassMaxCapacityTopic.asp

Of course with both methods (Stream & StringWriter) you will more then
likely run out of system resources first, either actual harddisk space or
virtual memory.

Hope this helps
Jay