> I'd like to add that, while XMPP is XML-based, it might be more suitable to use a full-blown SGML parser to deal with XMPP streams being presented as incomple

> I'd like to add that, while XMPP is XML-based, it might be more suitable to use a full-blown SGML parser to deal with XMPP streams being presented as incomplete XML (eg end-element tags missing) which SGML can deal with in a formal way (end-element inference). It's not that end tags are missing in XMPP, just that the "document" is streamed so it isn't all available at once. Any common SAX-style parser can deal with streaming documents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML