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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by nly on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:28AM (#10901200)
Message size is important, but for low-bandwidth instant messaging is XML really bothersome? I mean it's not like you're writing your own XML parser or serialiser, is it?
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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by drdaeman on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:50AM (#10901327)
The sad truth about XMPP is that a lot of developers actually did this (at least in early days). Maybe because a lot of readily available libraries weren't really compatible with XML streams and XMPP's idea of framing.

And their XML parsing were quite limited.

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