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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I wish to read and write traceparent/tracestate, encoded using trace context, without passing an http.Request

Describe the solution you'd like
Two new methods should be added to HttpFormat or as public functions:

SpanContextFromHeaders(traceparent string, tracestate string) (sc trace.SpanContext, ok bool)
SpanContextToRequest(sc trace.SpanContext) (traceparent string, tracestate string)

Describe alternatives you've considered
AFAIK no alternatives are available in this library, except copy pasting that code in my own code.