Remove element_buffer

The new RX concept will not need such an element buffer and uses the
xml.Decoder.DecodeElement() function instead.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 61 deletions

diff --git a/xmpp/element_buffer.go b/xmpp/element_buffer.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 7792db2..0000000
--- a/xmpp/element_buffer.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-package xmpp
-
-import (
-	"encoding/xml"
-)
-
-// elementBuffer is a struct to store multiple values of type xml.Token until
-// they form a complete XML element with opening and closing tag which is
-// suitable to be passed to an appropriate handler function.
-type elementBuffer struct {
-	tokens []xml.Token
-	end    xml.EndElement
-	level  int
-}
-
-// newElementBuffer returns a new initialized elementBuffer struct.
-func newElementBuffer() elementBuffer {
-	buf := elementBuffer{}
-	buf.reset()
-	return buf
-}
-
-// FIXME this function needs essential error handling for corner cases!
-//
-// add is able to add a new xml.Token to the buffer. There are some rules
-// checked to ensure a correct and consistent elementBuffer which are checked.
-// If one of these checks fail the token is not added and a corresponding error
-// is returned.
-func (e *elementBuffer) add(t xml.Token) error {
-	switch t.(type) {
-	case xml.StartElement:
-		e.level += 1
-	case xml.EndElement:
-		e.level -= 1
-	}
-	e.tokens = append(e.tokens, t)
-	return nil
-}
-
-// FIXME isComplete would be true if a stream with only one XML comment is
-// passed to the buffer. This might be unexpected behaviour.
-//
-// isComplete returns true if the buffer contains a slice of XML tokens which
-// form a complete XML element starting with an xml.StartElement and closing
-// with the corresponding xml.EndElement.
-func (e *elementBuffer) isComplete() bool {
-	return (len(e.tokens) > 0 && e.level == 0)
-}
-
-// reset returns the content of the buffer as a slice of XML tokens and resets
-// the buffer to the initial state. This function can be used to initialize the
-// elementBuffer struct. In that case the return value can be ignored.
-func (e *elementBuffer) reset() (buf []xml.Token) {
-	retval := e.tokens
-
-	e.tokens = make([]xml.Token, 0)
-	e.end = xml.EndElement{}
-	e.level = 0
-
-	return retval
-}