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If you want to do this, you could consider asn.1 and perhaps an xmlschema->asn.1->xml instance mapping. All the bit packing and so on has been worked out by the asn.1 folks - you have to come up with the xml conversions. Cheers, Tom P Ruth Bergman wrote > Hi all, > > I'm reviving a thread that ended some weeks ago (I'm afraid I'm about 1000 > messages behind on this list). I have been thinking about large data > transfers myself recently. The problem we typically face at JPL is very > large quantities of data and of course very limited telecommunication > capability. Or I should say, we have excellent telecommunication > capability, but it is still our limiting factor with the number and types > of sensors our spacecraft carry. > > People in our organization are re-thinking some telecom data transmission > formats, and XML came to mind. Unfortunately the overhead is very large. > It is possible in many cases that overall tag size will be greater than > data quantity. > > It would be useful to mimic, in XML, the way that telecom data is > traditionally transmitted. Typically, in a transmission packet, there is a > header that describes the data that follows. I think that an XML Schema > could replace this header nicely. After transmission, it should be > straightforward to unpack the data into a complete xml document using the > schema in the header. > > Is anyone working on applications of this nature? >
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