On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:03:06PM +0000, Al Sutton wrote: > Daniel, Al,
> I think you may be a little confused. I think you'll find that there are Sorry, no, I don't think I am. > specs for SAX and DOM parsers for XML, but XML itself is (or at least > was originally) purely a data representation format, and as such didn't Right but the spec includes a lot of points that an XML parser MUST respect to be considered to be conformant to XML. Your code clearly is not and you should not advocate using it as an XML parser. Call it "markup parser" if you want but not XML parser because this is not. > I fully accept it doesn't support processing directives (such as the > <?xml element which is used to detail encoding), and that enforcing all Which is an absolute requirement for an XML parser. How many time did you see messages on this list "the server disconnect because I use non ASCII characters" like messages ? A server based on your parser would not have the same behaviour as the common jabberd using expat. > tags are pushed into lower case isn't ideal (and is something that is It's just plain broken, sorry. The Jabber protocol is expected to be extensible and the extensions are driven by XML (c.f. the XML-RPC, XHTML, ones etc...), and all those are case sensitive because they are XML. > Myself and others have used my parser in a number of products which > handle the jabber protocol and thought it may be of use to Matt. It happen to work, to some extent. Your parser though will not generate the same output as something based on expat or another XML parser (seem you miss the CR/LF normalization which mean you will not pass the same data as a conformant parser for some multiline messages for example). It's nothing personal, just one should respects the specifications when they happen to exist and use conformant code/products when they are available. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
