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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Frank Richards wrote: > > ASN.1 :-) XML is > > only competition for ASN.1 because it's being pushed by hype; there's > > nothing it can usefully do that couldn't be done as well or > > better before. > > Publish a Book. Or website, or a CDROM. Or all three. > Books: http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/book/index.htm and http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk//books/osi/osi.html to start with. Website: http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/introduction/index.htm is the definitive, generally. A CD-ROM / website with a nice open source ASN.1 toolkit and documentation for same in DocBook, also published as an O'Reilly or similar, would be nice - but I haven't got time, personally :-( > > Another win of ASN.1 over XML is 15 years of practical > > experience using it > > in the real world. That's hard to beat :-) > > ISO 8879 __1986__ I see your 1986 and raise you two years! X.409 __1984__ and ISO 8824 / 8825 __1987__! And that's real ASN.1, ISO 8879 is SGML, which despite being far more complex is but a pale shadow of XML+schemas; it was never intended as a notation for data interchange, just documents... it's about wrapping elements around text to "mark it up". In a structured, general, way. Stuff like groves seems to suggest that some people were having XML-like ideas for SGML before XML came along, but it never took off; ASN.1 was a data transport at heart since 1984 [not that it was called ASN.1 until it became an ISO standard in 1987, though] :-) > > Frank > ABS -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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