On 2/19/08, Maarten Bosteels <[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 ?
Of course, using a protocol that has a fixed/prefixed/clearly delimited length is more easy - but if you have to communicate with systems that use proprietary protocols which are not "network friendly", you have to deal with it. For me it had an advantage: i finally got enlightened about what SAX parsers are good for ;) christian!
