Assuming that by "XML statements" you mean "XML documents" as defined in the XML specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-well-formed), the spec should provide the documentation you need. A well-formed XML document consists of a prolog (principally the XML declaration), a root element (also called a document element) which typically has some number of children, and zero or more processing instructions, comments, and/or whitespace characters. After the close of the root element, anything else (such as an element start tag or an XML declaration) breaks well-formedness.
In the best of all possible worlds, you'd get one document at a time. Failing that, the sender of this stream of documents must provide a reliable mechanism for separating documents. One approach would be for the client to guarantee that every document begins with an XML declaration, and that the string of characters that makes up an XML declaration would never occur elsewhere in the stream of characters. While simple in theory, this probably would not prove very robust. Some sort of document encapsulation scheme (like MIME's multipart media type - see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2046.html) would be better. A bare-bones approach would be to start the stream with a header that indicates how many bytes are in the document that follows. You'd read that number of bytes, process it as a document, then look for the next header. You'd probably want some sort of error recovery mechanism in case you didn't get the number of bytes you expected. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Handling/Parsing/Validating multiple XML Statements > > I am on the server end of a client-server setup. The programmer > working on the client end is sending me multiple XML > statements in one > group. The XercesDOMParser I am using does not like it. > > I am looking for either a way to separate the incoming statements or > documentation to support my request that the client send only > one at a > time. > > Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
