[JDEV] Re: server2client

[belg4mit at MIT.EDU]

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:11:31 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>

>Then the client goofed, the messages come in as <message></message>. I'm
>working on the mac client right now, and you watch for the ending
>message tag. At that point you know you've gotten one whole message. I
>read the data and send it to the XML parser (expat). When expat sees an
>end tag, an end tag handler is called. AFAIK there isn't really a _need_
>for a carriage return EOM marker.
I think you did not understand what I said, for this is exactly my point.

given an instaneous stream of:
<message>
	<!-- crap -->
</message>
<message>
	<!-- other crap -->
</message>

The client has to know XML itself (or it's supporting lib) to know that that
is two messages?

<!-- keep in the mind iscoming from a perl view -->
This would mean you'd have to read a single byte at a time to prevent getting
extraneous data. (you could read more and do some funky stuff to save it of
course) This seems to be a very uncool manner of doing things. Why wasn't a
length attrib added to the message tag? the length being from the > at then
end of the <message tag> to the > of the </message> tag. Yes I realize this
mean's the whole message must be known before it can be streamed, but it seems
a small price to play for sanity.

Or is the serve somehow smart enough to know to only feed the client one
message a time? In which case this whole thing is moot.

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