Re: [xml] how do I...

[Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb highlab com>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:24:55PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> > My network format already includes an end-of-document marker which never
> > appears inside the document ('\n'), so I guess I'm standards-compliant,
> > if only by dumb luck.  :)
>
>   Hum, the problem is that \n is perfectly legal within XML documents,
> and quite common there. So it works because the kind of data don't
> require it but it's not a good solution. You should still be able
> to use other separators chars in markup and escape it to a numeric
> character reference if really needed, but still this is very limited.
> I assume your documents are short, in which case a stream of
>   [(inti, documenti) *]  where inti == len(documenti)
> would be quite easier to handle, as you can directly read the right number 
> of bytes and then pass directly the complete buffer for a single pass
> parsing.


True; in the wild, '\n' is all over the place, for example here --->

:)


But in my little toy universe I make the rules, and I decreed that no
message may include it.  Maybe it'd be more convenient to use '\0', or to
prepend the length like you suggest.  I was just hoping XML would "just do
it" for me, but I stand corrected.  Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.


-- 
Sebastian Kuzminsky
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