Not all message filters and routers support streams

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I tried using both xml message filter and xml message splitting but both seemed to fail when using an incoming file endpoint. I had to turn off streaming on the file transport to get them to work.

This problem may also affect many other filters/splitters.

If the payload is not a org.dom4j.Document or a String the payload is considered not to be XML apart from that fact that streaming isn't supported.

• FilteringXmlMessageSplitter
• JXPathFilter

-Regex
-Wildcard

-FileToByteArray
http://www.nabble.com/Mule-transformers-not-being-invoked-tp17832226p17832226.html

We need to review all filters and routers for streaming compliance

I think we need to be able to deal with both InputStream and XML stream types. Also it might be worth working out how/where OutputHandler is used and if we need to handler this type also or not.