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- To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] RE: description of the logical or semantic structure
- From: Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:19:27 -0500
- Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- In-reply-to: <200511021611.jA2GBHg22690@server1.livestoryboard.com>
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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
> http://www.saxonica.com/
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