Fabio Forno wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2008 11:21 PM, XMPP Extensions Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP.
>>
>> Title: Stream Compression with Efficient XML Interchange
>>
>> Abstract: This document specifies how to use Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) 
>> in XML stream compression.
>>
>> URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/compress-exi.html
>>
>> The XMPP Council will decide at its next meeting whether to accept this 
>> proposal as an official XEP.
> 
> Did some homework about EXI. I don't know if handling it as a
> compression method it's the best way, since it forces the client to
> have both an xml parser just for the first stanzas before features
> (indeed it could be done with some string search, but it's an ugly
> hack) and the exi parser. EXI streams, instead, have a starting header
> whose first two bits allow understanding whether the data is encoded
> with EXI or text xml, so a client wanting to use it could open the
> stream directly with EXI. If the servers doesn't understand it can
> reply with an error.

Alternatively, we could define a new SRV record that would enable a
deployment to advertise a different port for the EXI service, such as:

_xmpp-client-exi._tcp.example.com

Peter

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