incremental processing

[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-06-04 I posted a question about incremental processing (content
that is now contained in section 4.11):

http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-use/mail-archive/msg00220.html

Given that there were no replies, I take it that section 4.11 is perceived
to be uncontroversial. However, successful experience with bidirectional
XML streams within the Jabber community provides fairly strong evidence
that the following statements from section 4.11 are false or misleading:

   Note that incremental processing is difficult to implement if
   interspersed across multiple interactions.  In other words, if a
   protocol requires incremental processing across both directions of a
   bidirectional stream, then it may place significant burden on
   protocol implementers.

I again ask for clarification of these statements, since they would appear
to cast aspersions on the use of stateful, bidirectional XML streams in
the Jabber protocol, despite numerous successful implementations and
deployments of that protocol.

Thanks.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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