"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> mohit.jha@g... wrote:
>> 4.0
>
> The MSXML SDK says that load takes a URL as a string and I can't believe 
> that it fails if the URL is longer than 256 characters.
> What value exactly do you pass to the load method?
> What error do you get?
> Have you tried to use a file: URL e.g.
> file:///C:/dir/subdir/subsubdir/file.xml?
>
>
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>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/


Probably the limitation is a Windows limitation. The VC header stdlib.h has 
the following define:

    #define _MAX_PATH   260 /* max. length of full pathname */

The comment says that it is for "Sizes for buffers used by the _makepath() 
and _splitpath() functions." but that symbolic name is used frequently in 
the Windows samples. The value 256 or 260 is documented somewhere as the 
maximum size of a Windows filename without using the "UNC" (Universal Naming 
Code) format. I think the sample file URL above does not use the UNC format 
but I am not sure.