• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: An approach to let XML 2.n resources hold multipleentities
• From: Jim Ancona <jim@a...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:59:34 -0500
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Keep in mind that it is possible *now*, *today*, in XML 1.0 for a file 
> or a stream to contain multiple consecutive XML documents, as well as 
> other things. In fact, this may actually occur with multipart MIME 
> and/or HTTP 1.1. XML 1.0 makes no requirement that a file or stream 
> contain only one document

This whole thread brought to mind an approach to streaming XML that I 
first saw described by David Megginson several years ago[1]--simply 
separate documents in the stream with the formfeed character, which is 
never legal in an XML document. I believe this approach will work even 
with XML 1.1, since it requires that control characters must be encoded 
as character references.

Jim

[1] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/199902/msg00819.html

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