From: "Ing. Damiano Bolla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Not really, reading from a socket you do not know whan the document is finished > You really need to use a SAXDriver to parse the data stream logically and > detect the logical end of file. > As far as I understand this is the only option available.
Unfortunately an XML parser can never know when the document ends. After the last element tag there can be endless processing instructions or comments. e.g. <foo> <!-- end of docuemnt --> <?foo a="123??> So when making XML servers you typically need to send the size first, then the document, so you know how far to read. e.g. like a HTTP GET or POST, the content length helps a client know how far to read on the stream. James _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
