>Many protocols use some form of self describing data format, for example
> ASN.1, XML, S expressions, and bencoding.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. All XML and S expressions really get
you is that you know how to skip past something you don't understand. This
is also true for many (XER, DER, BER) but not all (PER) encodings for
ASN.1.
Are you saying why publish a schema?
/r$
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