DR 09-0063: Help with buffer "lengths"

[Shawn Villaron]

Greetings,

I'm hoping that one of the XML experts on WG4 can help me determine the right approach for handling a set of open defect reports.

The following defect reports relate to the lengths of buffers for some of our entities:

DR 09-0063 - WML, Fields: Form Field Properties length
                Part 1, §17.16.17, "ffData (Form Field Properties)", p. 1412
DR 09-0064 - WML, Simple Types: ST_FFHelpTextVal length
                Part 1, §17.18.25, "ST_FFHelpTextVal", p. 1534
DR 09-0065 - WML, Simple Types: ST_FFName length
                Part 1, §17.18.26, ST_FFName, p. 1535
DR 09-0066 - WML, Simple Types: ST_MacroName length
                Part 1, §17.18.51, "ST_MacroName", p. 1563
DR 09-0068 - SML, Styles: name attribute length
                Part 1, §18.8.29, "name (Font Name)", p. 1965
DR 09-0069 - SML, Pivot Tables: longText attribute length
                Part 1, §18.10.1.90, "sharedItems (Shared Items)", p. 2164

We've currently defined each of these buffers in terms of number of characters.  My notes say that there is WG4 interest in understanding the lengths of these in octets.  But that's where I'm getting confused.

Since XML specifies a character encoding, shouldn't characters be the right unit of measurement here?  I've verified that the buffers defined are correct, so if we're just waiting for verification, we can write this up and close them out; if we need to use a different unit of measurement, if you can help me figure out what the right unit of measurement is, I can get them written up tomorrow.

To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion here; rather, I'd prefer to tap into the XML expertise on WG4 to inform me on the best approach.

As you can imagine, I'm super interested in getting proposals to all of these out ASAP.  Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

shawn

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