ActionScript 3.0 :: AIR AS3 XmlSocket <=> Java TCP/IP Socket. 00 Byte In Wrong Place?

I'm extending XMLSocket to work with a daemon, written in Java, that a peer is using to interface with his PLC controller.What I should be seeing from the daemon is simple digital io info in the form:

Code:
d0i,d0o,

Which represents a 'button' dowm/up. The strings are terminated with commas to make it easier for me to parse them. I've got my XMLSocket working just fine, but I'm receiving the data more like this:

Code:
socketDataHandler:
socketDataHandler: D
socketDataHandler: 4

[code]....

So, there's a null character, followed by individual chars that make up the message I'm expecting, only last "," is truncated. It does come through on the next dataEvent:

Code:
socketDataHandler: ,
socketDataHandler: D;
socketDataHandler: 4;
socketDataHandler: O;

Lastly, I checked raw data in a shell, and it looks like:

Code:
0000000: 0044 0034 0049 002c 0044 0034 004f 002c
0000010: 0044 0034 0049 002c 0044 0034 004f 002c

When dumped to hex. It is my understanding (mostly from a sdocs) that Each XML message is a complete XML document, terminated by a zero (0) byte.I can see that he's sending each CHAR separated by a 00 byte, but they are prepended, not appended like:

Code:
0000000: 44 00 34 00 49 00 2c 00 44 00 34 00 4f 00 2c 00
0000010: 44 00 34 00 49 00 2c 00 44 00 34 00 4f 00 2c 00

or even better:

Code:
0000000: 44 34 49 2c 44 34 4f 2c 00
0000010: 44 34 49 2c 44 34 4f 2c 00