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• Subject: Re: Xml is _not_ self describing
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:46:10 -0500
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 10:53 am, Al Snell wrote:
> > FWIW. I also believe in "the right syntax for the job".
>
> One of the nice things about ASN.1 is that instead of (say) an XML
> schema you specify an "abstract syntax", which is basically a data
> model, and then use any of a library of "transfer syntaxes" which
> map from that abstract syntax to strings of bits.

I quite like this approach because it allows you to perform late 
optimization as needed.

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