John Wilson wrote: > > > If you are sending well formed XML you can > > > tell when the response has ended without it.
> From: "Timothy Peierls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Can you? Aren't comments and PIs allowed after the top level > > tag is closed? Or is that an old, fixed XML spec bug? John Wilson wrote: > As the XML-RPC implementation never sends PIs the point is > somewhat moot ;) The spec is not exactly clear about whether comments and PIs are allowed, so you can be sure that there is or will be an implementation out there that uses a trailing PI to send sideband information for clients that care about it, leaving other clients to ignore it. Innocent clients that rely on the document close tag will break, and the rogue implementation author can claim with some justification that the spec doesn't disallow the trailing PIs. So clients cannot in general use the closing tag in lieu of the Content-length. At any rate, there seems to be general agreement that servers can't omit the Content-length header, so ultimately, yes, the point is moot. --tim
