[jdev] Re: VTD-XML version 1.6

[Jimmy Zhang]

http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps6438/c1031/cdccont_0900aecd803fa77d.pdf
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Campbell" <list-jdev at vicious.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Jabber software development list" <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: [jdev] Re: VTD-XML version 1.6


> On Sat, 20 May 2006, Jimmy Zhang wrote:
>
>> 2. In the future, XML capability will get built into the network layer, 
>> but if a message is not well-formed
>> XML, they are less likely to take advantage of those capabilities of 
>> network routers and switches, again
>> hindering adoption....
>
> I suspect you're smoking better quality drugs than I can get locally. 
> Please read through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model .
>
> Introducing XML at the 'network layer' has a huge number of complications, 
> as XML is not a strictly-ordered protocol. It means that every device 
> receiving such a packet must run an XML parser, in order to find out where 
> in the packet the routing information actually is.  This differs from a 
> 'real' network layer protocol such as IP, where the routing information is 
> located at fixed offsets within the packet, and thus, is comparitively 
> easy to put into silicon.
>
> Within the context of Jabber, XML is simply a data format used by an 
> Application Layer protcol formerly named 'XMPP'.
>
> -- 
>   Bruce Campbell
>