Re: Why didn't XML provide a document separator?

2004-11-25 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
/Joseph Kesselman/: Because such a stream is not an XML document, I suppose. More or less. They had to stop at some point; Document is where they drew the line. There's nothing wrong with higher-level protocols when you have to transmit multiple documents; if it happens often enough, someone can pr

Re: Why didn't XML provide a document separator?

2004-11-24 Thread Don Bate
Title: Re: Why didn't XML provide a document separator? However, bookstores do sell volumes. And there's a darn clear separator between them. At 1:42 PM -0500 11/24/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the same reason the bookstore doesn't sell bookshelves. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why didn't XML provide a document separator?

2004-11-24 Thread ramin_rad
For the same reason the bookstore doesn't sell bookshelves. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/24/2004 11:35 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Why didn't XML provide a document separator? I've always been curious why the

Re: Why didn't XML provide a document separator?

2004-11-24 Thread Joseph Kesselman
>Because such a stream is not an XML document, I suppose. More or less. They had to stop at some point; Document is where they drew the line. There's nothing wrong with higher-level protocols when you have to transmit multiple documents; if it happens often enough, someone can propose a standa

Re: Why didn't XML provide a document separator?

2004-11-24 Thread Bob Foster
Because such a stream is not an XML document, I suppose. Bob Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always been curious why the XML spec never provided a way to separate multiple documents in a stream. In almost all my uses of XML, I've had to come up with a special character to separate the document

Why didn't XML provide a document separator?

2004-11-24 Thread robert_gary
I've always been curious why the XML spec never provided a way to separate multiple documents in a stream. In almost all my uses of XML, I've had to come up with a special character to separate the documents as they come down the socket. ---