Re: [Help-smalltalk] ZLib streams

[Paolo Bonzini]

> Is the XMLParser (in SAX mode) able to parse directly from a TCP.Socket
> in such kind of way that completed input leads to SAX events? I've seen
> a XMLParser>>#on: method... would this work:
>
>    socket := ...
>    XMLParser on: socket.
>    ...
> ?
>
> (That kind of feature would be required for parsing XMPP (the protocol
> that was formerly called 'Jabber')), but I'm not sure I'm ever going to
> implement a XMPP lib in smalltalk (I've already done that in Perl, and
> it was _not_ a pleasure :-))

I think so, yes.  You might have problems with lookahead there, too, but 
apart from that it would be okay.

Paolo