Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Peter Seibel wrote:

>>Ok. Thanks for the info. My impression of beep so far is that it's
>>basically a useful and reasonable idea but that its use of XML is
>>somewhat gratuitous.
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>Does BEEP use XML as a data transfer format or as a descriptor
>language for defining protocols. (I read some of the O'Reilly book on
>BEEP a while back but don't remember where, if at all, they used XML
>in that version.)
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It's not used to actually move data, thank goodness.  It's there for 
more for command channel / negotiation stuff.

miles