• From: Olivier DUBUISSON <Olivier.Dubuisson@f...>
• To: "Al B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:25:19 +0200

"Al B. Snell" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
> 
> > Could we say that ECN is a "stylesheet" language designed to express the
> > encoding of data following a particular schema expressed in ASN.1 ?
> 
> Yes, I think so (Olivier? Back me up here, I'm not an ECN expert)

Wow! I'd never have dreamed of ECN quoted on an XML list :)
Well... it's an interesting way to explain ECN. The analogy is really good
IMO, for ECN Encoding Link Modules *apply* encodings on ASN.1 values (instances of a type) in the same way as, I think, stylesheets apply transformations on XML documents (instances of a XML schema).
Of course what goes out of ECN is binary, not textual (for the moment).

> > provided at [1]. I found the part "Mapping from XML Schemas to ASN.1
> > modules" particularly interesting... If one can translate an XML schema into
> > ASN.1, and build an encoder/decoder for any binary format using ECN, the
> > bridge is nearly built already !
> 
> Quite :-)
> 
> >
> > [1] http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml/
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