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The wild popularity of XML as a basis for application-level protocols
such as the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol ...
... Jabber [JABBER] prompted
investigation into the possibility of extending the use of XML in the
protocol stack. Using XML at both the transport ...
... investigation into the possibility of extending the use of XML in the
protocol stack. Using XML at both the transport and network layer ...
... removing dependencies on proprietary
and hard-to-understand binary protocols. This protocol unification
would also allow applications to use a single XML parser for all
aspects of their operation, eliminating developer time spent figuring
out the intricacies of each new protocol ...
... new protocol, and moving the hard work of
parsing to the XML toolset. The use of XML also mitigates concerns
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... contain elements or attributes that would not be needed in a pure
reworking (e.g. length attributes, which are implicit in XML.)
The layering of network ...
... The routing of IPoXML can be easily implemented on hosts with an XML
parser, as the regular structure lends itself handily to parsing and
validation of the document/datagram ...
... deployment of IPv4 and the fact that implementing IPv6 as XML
would have exceeded the 1500 byte Ethernet MTU ...
... payload element bears special attention. Due to the character
set restrictions of XML, the payload of IP datagrams (which MAY
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... element was expanded to a maximum of 255 from 16 to
allow for the increased size of the header in XML.
TCPoXML datagrams ...
... Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., "Extensible Markup Language (XML)" World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC- xml-19980210. http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210 ...