Hi! There are several characters, that have predefined entities in XML, but that do not need to be escaped in XML. Examples for such characters are > ' and " in text nodes.
E.g. due to the XML standard the following stanza would be valid XML: <message to='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' from='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'><body>Yes, a > b!</body></message> ... while RFC 3920 forbidds to generate such XML when used as XMPP. RFC3920bis even requires a server to check that this type of XML is not used and that a stream error has to be generated, if it is received. So I have two questions regarding this: Why at all do these characters have to be escaped? I it really necessary, that RFC 3920bis mandates a server to reject such XMPP streams? I very much dislike this requirement, as it would require me to implement my own XML parser, as I don't know any parser I could use, that could be configured to notice me that these characters have been received unescaped. Matthias -- Matthias Wimmer Fon +49-700 77 00 77 70 Züricher Str. 243 Fax +49-89 95 89 91 56 81476 München http://ma.tthias.eu/
