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Re: Weigh-in please - Template format: XML and/or Compact Notation
Anders Furuhed / Pantor Engineering 19 Apr 2006 5:16PM ETYou're absolutely correct, the SCP templates would be hard wired with reserved templates identifiers.
> I had thought about this, but it wasn't immediately clear to me how
> you could parse any FAST message without first having a template. How
> would the FAST message containing a template be parsed without first
> having a template?
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> I suppose we could standardize the template for transfering templates.
> Essentially reserve template id 1 for passing templates around, and all
> FAST engines would have this template preloaded. Is that what the
> document described?
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> > I don't know the distribution of that version of the document, but an
> > earlier draft of SCP contained messages for template exchange, i.e.
> > the templates were transmitted as FAST messages themselves. This makes
> > transfer efficient, which is nice if you would like to replace a
> > template mid-day for instance or if you use extremely short-lived
> > sessions. More importantly, your existing FAST processor can be reused
> > so that no additional parser is needed.
Re: Weigh-in please - Template format: XML and/or Compact Notation Anders Furuhed / Pantor Engineering 19 Apr 2006 5:16PM ET
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