[jdev] VTD-XML version 1.6

[Ralph Meijer]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:56:04AM +0200, Michal vorner Vaner wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:18:52AM +0200, Ralph Meijer wrote:
> > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 12:10:41AM -0700, Jimmy Zhang wrote:
> > > The other issue, the way I understand Jabberd, it is a router, how can
> > > one not waiting for the entire document to arrive before routing the 
> > > message?
> > > Also what kind of performance jabberd is performing? Do it have to
> > > occasionally modify XML data?
> > 
> > Jabber works using direct childs of the root element as the unit of
> > communication, not the whole document. Entities basically open a TCP
> > connection and then during the whole session (which may last days or
> > even longer) two XML documents are being exchanged. One in each
> > direction.
> > 
> As I have seen, most jabber libraries have SAX parser to split it into
> the stanzas (these child elements) and there is something like semi-dom
> something to take care of each one. And I guess there will not be much
> difference in the parsers, if it is already split up and built to some
> kind of tree, or joined to gether and passed to any special parser to
> parse it again. And anyway, these pars are rather small - usually few
> bytes.

Sure. Jimmy didn't seem to understand how XML Streams work, so I gave a
small overview. The point is that he send a message that appears to be
targetted at the larger XML community and someone asking if this stuff
actually works for Jabber. It looked like spam to me initially, too.

-- 
Groetjes,

ralphm