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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 -- Don't you think all these XML schema languages should work together? http://dsdl.org Upcoming schema tutorial: - Philadelphia (7/12/2003) http://makeashorterlink.com/?V28612FC5 Tutoriel XSLT: - Paris (25/11/2003) http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2C623FC5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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