RE: Can XSLT produce binary output: ASN.1-BER

You might find some useful code in the Pears project at OCLC's Office of
Research: http://www.oclc.org/research/software/pears. Pears (a database
that uses BER internally) has record handlers that convert XML records to
ASN.1/BER, using a configuration file to map XML tag names to BER tag
numbers. It's Java and open source, so could be integrated with XSLT fairly
easily.

Peter



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:54 AM
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> Subject: RE:  Can XSLT produce binary output: ASN.1-BER
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> 
> I would be inclined to write a custom serializer for this. 
> Many processors give you access to the result tree in the 
> form of a SAX event stream, which you can capture in a 
> user-written SAX2 ContentHandler. 
> 
> This allows your XSLT stylesheet to concentrate on generating 
> the ASN.1 representation as a tree, and the serializer to 
> contain all the knowledge about the BER encoding of ASN.1
> 
> An alternative is that there is, I believe, an XML encoding 
> of ASN.1, and therefore presumably a converter from that to BER. 
> 
> Michael Kay
> 
> 
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> > Reitberger Peter
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> > Subject:  Can XSLT produce binary output: ASN.1-BER
> > 
> > 
> > I have a XML document and would like to transform it to ASN.1-BER.
> > How would I do this with XSLT? 
> > The BER is a binary format but so is PDF. Therefore it should 
> > be possible? Has anyone done that already?
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