Re: multiple xml documents on an input stream

[Rob Enns <rpe@juniper.net>]

Good question.

While I really like the (relative) ease of deployment of SSH (or SSL),
dealing with the lack of a framing protocol is a pain, as is hooking 
the stream up to a std parser. I find myself repeatedly coming down 
in favor of BEEP, because inventing yet another framing protocol on
top of SSH or SSL would be kind of silly.

I'm interested to hear what others think about this issue.

thanks,
 Rob

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:00:41PM -0400, jtsillas wrote:
> The old draft specified using BEEP as the session protocol which has a handy
> feature of delivering delimited objects so that each XML document can be handled
> independently. Without this feature commonly available parsers (like SAX) don't
> work (see this discussion on the xerces-j-user mailing list: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-user&m=102405097214693&w=2 )
> If the standard does go with SSL, are we planning on adopting some kind of delimiting scheme? Trying to recover the end of the document by hunting for angle brackets seems risky (especially with the rpc format specified is "text").
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
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