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• Subject: Re: RE: Why a "general" solution? (was: RE: XML Binary Characterization WG public list available e)
• From: "Ed Day" <eday@o...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:50:56 -0400
• Cc: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@i...>,"'Robin Berjon'" <robin.berjon@e...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
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Hi Rick,

Check out the following links:

For XSD -> ASN.1 :

http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/tools/xsd2asn1/

For ASN.1 -> XSD :

http://www.obj-sys.com/freesoftware.shtml

These are free to use, but not open source.

Regards,

Ed Day
Objective Systems, Inc.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Marshall" <rjm@z...>
To: <bob@w...>
Cc: "'Bullard, Claude L (Len)'" <clbullar@i...>; "'Robin Berjon'"
<robin.berjon@e...>; "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: RE:  RE: Why a "general" solution? (was: RE: XML
Binary Characterization WG public list available e)


> bob
>
> is there an open source tool for converting xml to ans.1? and back too i
> guess.
>
> rick
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 05:41, Bob Wyman wrote:
> > Claude L Bullard wrote:
> > > If we follow this to a logical conclusion, I
> > > think we will end up with a binary-design
> > > toolkit, not a single binary.
> > I doubt it. For XML interop, we only need to worry about the
> > use of alternatives that are appropriate for use in the same domain in
> > which XML is useful. Thus, we don't have to worry about the *general*
> > problem of binary-format design. (i.e. there may be techniques that
> > are appropriate when designing something like jpeg but I don't think
> > we have to worry about XML interchange of image data any time soon.
> > (<pixel red="999" blue="333"...</pixel>)
> > For the domain in which XML is useful and thus XML interop is
> > meaningful, I am confident that we'll eventually "discover" that ASN.1
> > (either traditional or X.finfo) is sufficient to be the common binary
> > form. Thus, I would suggest that the XML community focus on interop
> > with ASN.1 and friends rather than trying to solve the general
> > binary-interop problem.
> >
> > One nice feature of accepting ASN.1 is it's name... It doesn't
> > include any "X"'s. Thus, you get compactness, speed of parsing, and
> > even patent protection! (i.e. no creative lawyer will be able to argue
> > that ASN.1 is just an alternative form of XML and is covered by the
> > growing number of XML specific patents...)
> >
> > bob wyman
> >
> >
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