# Looping past 256

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-past-256/258479>\
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**Created:** [April 24, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-past-256/258479 "2008-04-24T12:18:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-past-256/258479/1 "2008-04-24T12:18:21Z")

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I have a set of data stored in an .xml file. I have 600 nodes of data in there. Now my for loop won’t process the file.

my first thought is to take the length of my xml and split up the parsing into loop friendly lengths and compile at the end but that seems like a hassle.