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> At the risk of touching off a religious war, I'd not suggest anyone > inflict ASN.1 on themselves, ever! As one who has used ASN.1 in the past and uses XML now, I agree absolutely. Though I do regret that the designers of XML didn't include some of the nicer features of ASN.1, specifically data typing. There are actually two problems with the "bitstuffing" style of encoding: firstly it's terribly hard to write the code to generate it and parse it; secondly you only have to get one bit wrong and the guy at the other end can't extract anything from your message. We spent years getting X.400 mail systems to interoperate as a result. Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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