Index: XMPPConnection.h
==================================================================
--- XMPPConnection.h
+++ XMPPConnection.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 @property (assign) BOOL useTLS;
 @property (retain) id <XMPPConnectionDelegate> delegate;
 
 - (void)connect;
 - (void)handleConnection;
+- (void)sendStanza: (OFXMLElement*)elem;
 @end

Index: XMPPConnection.m
==================================================================
--- XMPPConnection.m
+++ XMPPConnection.m
@@ -76,10 +76,15 @@
 			    fromBuffer: buf];
 		[parser parseBuffer: buf
 			   withSize: len];
 	}
 }
+
+- (void)sendStanza: (OFXMLElement*)elem
+{
+	[sock writeString: [elem stringValue]];
+}
 
 -    (void)parser: (OFXMLParser*)p
   didStartElement: (OFString*)name
        withPrefix: (OFString*)prefix
 	namespace: (OFString*)ns
@@ -128,20 +133,20 @@
 	[authTag addAttributeWithName: @"mechanism"
 			  stringValue: @"PLAIN"];
 	[authTag addChild: [OFXMLElement elementWithCharacters:
 	    [message stringByBase64Encoding]]];
 
-	[sock writeString: [authTag stringValue]];
+	[self sendStanza: authTag];
 }
 
 - (void)_sendResourceBind
 {
 	XMPPIQ *iq = [XMPPIQ IQWithType: @"set" ID: @"bind0"];
 	[iq addChild: [OFXMLElement elementWithName: @"bind"
 					  namespace: NS_BIND]];
 
-	[sock writeString: [iq stringValue]];
+	[self sendStanza: iq];
 }
 
 - (void)_handleFeatures: (OFXMLElement*)elem
 {
 	for (OFXMLElement *child in elem.children) {