[JDEV] Why XML for everything?

[John Price]

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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jeremie wrote:

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> > > But I don't understand the use of XML for ALL your server/client
> > > messages.  I can understand it's use for the message itself.  It
> > > would facilitate changes in font, color, etc. but why use it for
> > > everything?  Seems like it would really increase the processing time
> > > to parse all that...
> > 
> > I agree, I would hate to have a full XML parser library reside on the
> > client, when a quick and dirty parser would do.
> 
> The way that we are using XML in Jabber doesn't require a "full" XML
> parser, there doesn't need to be any validation, no internal DTDs or
> entities, no PIs, etc, so a quick-n-dirty custom parser would be enough to
> get you by, but in the end it would probably be easier to just find a
> decent lightweight XML parser and use it.
> 
> I know that there was some difficulty finding an XML parser in Java that
> didn't require the full document (it wouldn't process a "stream" on the
> fly), so some work has gone into writing a streaming parser around the
> internal tokenizer of the XT parser.  Ask on the java-dev list for more
> info...

I still don't really have an answer to my original question (see above).
Not trying to be a pest, but I just want to understand the ideas behide
the decisions that have been made regarding Jabber.


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