Re: [Gaim-devel] Bonjour and XMPP

[Evan S. <ev...@ad...>]

On Mar 31, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Christopher O'Brien wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>> Agreed that that's a necessity.  So far as I can tell in cursory  
>> testing, sending any sort of invalid XML can drive iChat crazy  
>> (chat ended, further chatting can't be initiated by iChat but can  
>> still be done if the sending-invalid-XML side initiates the  
>> conversation)... but it seems to ignore valid but nonsensical XML.
>
> I think you mean "not well-formed" instead of "invalid", and  
> "invalid" instead of "nonsensical?" "Valid" specifically means that  
> it validates to a schema, and "well-formed" specifically means it  
> can be correctly parsed as XML.

Ah, thank you - I'm not (yet) up on my XML terminology  Yes, that's  
exactly what I mean.  iChat doesn't handle not well-formed XML  
elegantly, but it does properly respond to well-formed invalid XML.

-Evan