On Feb 19, 2008 4:27 PM, Luis Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maarten Bosteels wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2008 3:39 PM, Christian Migowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> I had to deal with a protocol that hasn't neither a fixed length nor a > >> fixed > >> delimiter (it is XML fragments sent directly on the wire, without any > >> header, so the Msg was complete when i found a matching end tag to a > list > >> of > >> start tags). > > > > > > Is it a custom protocol ? I think the protocol smells a bit. > > Is the character encoding used in the XML fragments always the same ? > > > > You're gonna have a hard time decoding when clients are allowed to send > XML > > using the encoding of their choice (eg. both UTF-8 and UTF-16) > > > See XMMP, it is basically an endless stream of XML stanzas. > > Hello Luis,
I guess you mean XMPP ? According to [1] it uses UTF-8 character encoding exclusively, which makes decoding a lot easier. That's why I asked Brenno if the encoding is fixed. [1] http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3920.html regards, Maarten > > -- > Luis Neves >
