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Re: ASN.1t schema languages?

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: ASN.1t schema languages?
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:12:10 +0000
• In-reply-to: <3E3009BF.2030808@t...>
• References: <001401c2c23f$e6ec9df0$7d01a8c0@Aldebaran> <E18bdxg-0007KJ-00@c...> <3E3009BF.2030808@t...>

On Thursday 23 January 2003 15:26, Tim Bray wrote:

> > Sounds like it was a lame implementation, rather than ASN.1 itself at
> > fault... ASN.1/BER handles Unicode fine, and normally works OK!
>
> Sorry, not good enough.  When someone sends me a pile of what's alleged
> to be XML
>
> (a) I can use lots of impartial 3rd-party software to find out whether
> it really is or not, and
> (b) That software runs pretty fast, and
> (c) It never breaks non-ASCII characters.

That's nothing to do with XML; that's to do with the software you have lying 
around.

> I've actually had consistently nasty experiences with (alleged) ASN.1.
> Is there actually a widely-available utility out there that I can
> download from somewhere that will reliably and robustly read BER-encoded
> ASN.1?  Google dosn't find much.

Search for asn1dump. Just about every tool that does it is called asn1dump 
:-) I was trying to find the asn1dump utility I have at home, but instead I 
found loads of others. Or dumpasn1, come to think of it.

http://www.lymeware.com/download_fw.html

Oh, look, there's even a debian package of dumpasn1.

ABS

-- 
A city is like a large, complex, rabbit
 - ARP

• References:
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  • Re: ASN.1t schema languages?
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
  • Re: ASN.1t schema languages?
    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>

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