Re: [xml-dev] RE: description of the logical or semantic structure

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Robert Koberg <>
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Michael Kay <>
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2005-11-02T16:19:27Z
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Re: [xml-dev] RE: description of the logical or semantic structure
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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> Michael Kay
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