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 On Monday 28 October 2002 11:09 pm, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > Given that XML came pretty completely out of the SGML community, I don't > think it's surprising that they felt SGML had a lot to offer. There may > be a few exceptions, but for the most part I think it's fair to say that > these people were immersed in SGML. Pah! One of my pet peeves, things that were designed by "Hmmm, we have a hammer, what looks like a nail?" :-) > Now if the ASN.1 community had had a similar idea... maybe they will > yet. It's been bandied about. I'm quite keen on defining a new notation for ASN.1 types that semantically the same as the existing one but: 1) Has an ASN.1 abstract syntax of its own, eg a data model beyond just what's implicit in the BNF of the specification And probably but not necessarily, since this may be satisfiable by just using XER with (1): 2) Has a nice easy to parse syntax for people to read And possibly: 3) Doesn't bother with supporting the syntax for deprecated types; I see "keeping it simple" as more important than "allowing ancient specs to be brought into it without updating them". Oooh, I've just had a fun idea; SER, sexpr encoding rules, which fill a similar niche to XER but are less Alaric-angering... that'd be a workable solution for (2) in my book of nested parenthesis! ABS -- Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place, Yellow desert screen 
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