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Raise totalEntitySizeLimit for dictionary XML parsing #3

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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion cfml.dictionary/src/main/java/cfml/dictionary/SyntaxDictionary.java
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Expand Up @@ -555,7 +555,12 @@ private void loadDictionary() throws IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurat
factory.setNamespaceAware(false);
factory.setValidating(false);
final XMLReader xmlReader = factory.newSAXParser().getXMLReader();

// The dictionary XML reuses a handful of shared attribute-group entities (event handlers,
// core/lang attributes etc.) across ~90 tag definitions, which legitimately accumulates
// past newer JDKs' tightened jdk.xml.totalEntitySizeLimit default - raise it for this
// parser instance only.
xmlReader.setProperty("http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/totalEntitySizeLimit", "10000000");

// setup the content handler and give it the maps for tags and functions
xmlReader.setContentHandler(new DictionaryContentHandler(syntaxelements, functions, scopeVars, scopes));
xmlReader.parse(input);
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