Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Miles Egan <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.
> >>
> >
> >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.)
> >

> It's not used to actually move data, thank goodness.  It's there for
> more for command channel / negotiation stuff.

But the XML still goes on the wire? (As opposed to being input to some
BEEP tool which then generates code that implements the protocol.)

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      [email protected]

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