[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!)and Bina
Simon St.Laurent wrote: > If some aspect of ASN.1 can cover mixed content and open content models, > I'm happy to welcome it to my regular list of XML schema languages. > Otherwise, I'll be happy to continue promoting ASN.1 as an _alternative_ > to XML, albeit one with ASN.1->XML->ASN.1 interoperability. > > (It's the anyXML->ASN.1->anyXML part that seems to remain a problem.) There's an ASN.1 type for the Infoset... meaning, one ASN.1 schema that covers any XML document. Useful for simple arbitrary-XML compression by reading XML and outputting a PER representation of the infoset. Run the result of that through GZip to compress the text parts and it gets pretty small! > I also wish there were open source tools for ASN.1 that just reported > the contents of an ASN.1 message, more like the open-ended approach that > XML parsers have generally taken. > > There could be some very cool stuff there. Yeah... the shortage of ASN.1 tools [expletive deleted]. There's some really lovely tools you can pay for, but that situation locks out experimenters, open source folks, etc. Who's up for a project to build an open source ASN.1 toolkit? ABS
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