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Re: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!)and Bina


compare asn.1 xml
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:37, Michael Champion wrote:

> Sounds like SGML circa 1996!  Maybe it's time for a serious refactoring 
> of ASN.1 to find the 80/20 point in there.   Maybe ASN.2 could be to 
> ASN.1 what XML is to SGML.

Another reason why I'd compare ASN.1 to SGML rather than XML is that,
like SGML, ASN.1 seems to be schema centric: it looks like you can't do
anything in ASN.1 without designing a schema first like you can't do
much with SGML without designing a DTD first.

Since the breakthrough of XML versus SGML is the fact that schemas are
now optional, isn't ASN.1 a regression in this respect?

I'd say that this might be a reason why ASN.1 isn't binary XML, it would
rather be binary SGML!

Eric

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