From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a4ea6d223d42bf6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:50:15 -0600 From: "Steve" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: OT: Looking for a protocol Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:53:39 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: <4ICdnd7w5epKeU_eRVn-hA@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.111.245 X-Trace: sv3-EEGdQoaMMz3R4tTfhTpmqYCx2xwL2dwbDYSDrevxSOq1KrVgWCz7tIxuDXtHTrW1f4aZonBZcPqauFF!ujzx5U+zOOnbw7RSCsusr+X7vUPT1GaDt5sn48gRtj/8kM7eGVBaeSgkNpY4Hp3X1pRk9SRKjUNf X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2566 Date: 2006-01-21T17:53:39-08:00 List-Id: It's off topic, but I know smart guys hang out on CLA so I'll ask anyway. I'm looking for a standard in which XML metadata is used to describe the structure of binary data. I want to send packets of binary data across TCP/IP with each packet preceded by a globally unique identifier (GUID) that identifies corresponding XML metadata. If the receiver does not already have the metadata, it can be requested from a server. Otherwise the receiver uses the metadata to interpret the binary data. It sounds so simple, someone has probably already done it. Is there a standard? I did some searching and came up empty. TIA, Steve (The Duck)