Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 21:27, Peter Seibel wrote:
> > >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.)

Yeah. It's actually sent over the wire. It was actually an early attempt
at a BEEP implementation that got me started with xmls. The BEEP test
cases in the xmls test suite were some of the first ones added.

This is why its xml use strikes me as somewhat gratuitous. The protocol
data is somewhat heirarchical, but barely.

miles

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