[RadiozRadioz]

> The biggest strength I see for XMPP is [...] XML

It's an advantage, sure, but to me the serialisation format is the least interesting thing. Others are similarly optimized too. I think the extensibility and approach to standards is far more interesting than the fact it uses angle brackets instead of braces.

[codr7]

Are they still sending the entire stream as an element? Thereby making dealing with that xml a lot more painful than it needs to be.

Back in the days, I had to write my own parser, existing xml parsers couldn't handle the case well.