[XML-SIG] State of the world

[Andrew Kuchling]

Jack Jansen writes:
>I think this is all a bad idea. The "xml way" of doing things is to
>have a single object per file, and I see no reason why we shouldn't
>conform to that. After all, if you need multiple objects you can

That means that if you're sending XML data over a pipe, the reader
must reads the whole XML document first (perhaps using a prefix giving
its length), put it into a string or some file-like object, and then
parse it.  A bit clumsy, but if XML documents are commonly in files,
or in one-shot pipes that get closed immediately afterwards, it's not
something that will occur often.  It certainly wouldn't be very
difficult to write xml.marshal to use a marshalling object that
provides .open() and .close() calls.

What does everyone think?  Is the case of multiple XML documents in
the same input stream not worth worrying about?  

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