On Feb 10, 2005, at 22:21, Irmen de Jong wrote:
PS the xdr format is not self-describing in the way that marshal and pickle streams are. That is a big limitiation for what I need it for so xdr seems to drop off my radar. Is an ASN.1 stream self-describing?
Not sure how much "self-describing" you want it to be, but, yes it can be as formal as you want it to be...
"... Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a formal language for abstractly describing messages... "
Sorry if this is off-topic, I didn't follow the thread from the very beginning, but wouldn't something like YAML work for you perhaps?
http://yaml.org/
Or even something more, er, exotic:
https://alt.textdrive.com/pl/
Cheers
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