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Thanks Rolf, Zoltan and Anders. Appreciate your time in answering my question. > FAST gives you a lot of freedom in how you encode your data. You must > however use a standard FAST construct to encapsulate your data. > > As Zoltan commented, you can put whatever binary data that you want > into a FAST byte vector. It will be according to the FAST spec, but > your recipient will be left with more decoding work to do above the > FAST layer. > > /Rolf > > > it is totally understood that the session and the FAST protocol is > > independant. My main question was to figure whether its a violation of > > the FAST protocol to have no templates for some messages and send it > > without field encoding. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to FIX-Protocol@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---