Why there was an unexpected limit on the number of tags you could add to ED

I didn't realize this until I started making a progress bar to ED as per Ben's suggestion. Originally, I suspected ED was slower with the submiting of Tags because I added in that extra step of adding tags to the Virtuoso Server with SPARQL. As it turns out, some of the tags were being repeated, so the SPARQLTagManager was adding a tag 2 or 3 times!

I traced this problem back to the xml the ed_connotea javascript was feeding it. What's worse, if you have too many tags with too many types associated with them, then the xml would get to be too big and it can't be passed as a parameter when we call the SPARQLTaggingServlet.

Firefox doesn't state that there is a limit on the size of the parameter.
But there is one for IE.

The trouble with the xml was that every time I called save_tag_action() to make it (I didn't realize it was appending the tags on to the existing one so I'd end up with duplicate tags. It's called once for the TagManagerSaveTaggingServlet and again for the SPARQLTaggingServlet. To alleviate this problem, I call the save_tag_action() once, save the xml and re use it for both servlets.

I wonder if it would be prudent to keep the xml in a cookie and destroy it once we're done.