Michael Kay wrote:
>>would you say the same about phonetic sounds or
>>alpha-numerics?
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> Yes, I would. They don't mean anything without some external information
> about the protocol in use, e.g. "this is Portuguese speech".
Sure. So binary XML is not a problem, right?
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> Of course, as humans we're quite good at guessing the protocol from the
> content, because there's usually enough redundancy in the message, but only
> from a limited range of protocols that we happen to know about.
Who is not a human on this list? As such, aren't there ways of determining?
just having fun,
-Rob
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