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Re: Is it time for the binary XML permathread to start up aga

• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
• To: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:47:32 -0400

> See rfc-editor.org, RFCs in the range 4910 to 4914.

I predict it will die quietly with no uptake.  ASN.X is a new schema 
language with the syntax of XSD and the semantics of ASN.1 that works with 
the toolkits of neither of them. As I read sections 8 and 9 of RFC 4910, 
RXER can't round-trip text strings, and its primary claim over XER is that 
XER uses the type names in the encoding, and RXER doesn't. If a new 
version of a standard comes along and refactors the schema, then an old 
XER encoding may no longer work.  I'm okay with that, since I think it 
follows the XML use model; your old xsi:type declarations are broken, too. 
 I don't know if it's common for standard revisions in the ASN1 world to 
refactor type declarations; in the security space I haven't seen it 
happen.

At any rate, those RFC's are experimental.  For good reason :)

        /r$

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DataPower SOA Appliances
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  • Re: Is it time for the binary XML permathread to start up again?
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>