Re: Now there seems to be lack of communicaiton here...

[Leslie Daigle <leslie at thinkingcat.com>]

Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> This draft should be clarified slightly.
>
> It has the idea of a "chunk" but does not adequately define it in relation
> to existing standard concepts. Why is "chunk" necessary when we already
> have "document" and "entity" defined?
>
> More specifically, the draft does not explicitly state whether the chunk
> must be well-formed: are chunks like SGML entitities that can be
> concatenated to form the eventual document regardless of nesting?
>
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe

Rick,

Good questions.  To answer them, a chunk is just a sequence of octets of the 
total data to be transfered, the size of which is up to the implementation. 
 They do not have to be well-formed.

I'll add some clarifying text.

-andy


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