• To: Alessandro Triglia <sandro@m...>
• Subject: Re: Patented XML Compression Techniques (WAS RE: Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?)
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:13:58 -0700
• Cc: 'Robin Berjon' <robin.berjon@e...>, xml-dev@l...
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Alessandro Triglia wrote:

> The web-based tool present on the asn1.elibel.tm.fr site is an
> implementation of an early draft of X.694.  The X.694 document is currently
> under ballot and contains several known errors that will be corrected.
> 
> As for ASN.1/XML tools in general, note that the new ASN.1-based standard I
> mentioned in my previous message will not require the use of the XML
> Encoding Rules (BASIC-XER or EXTENDED-XER) but only the use of PER (or
> perhaps BER).  Older ASN.1 tools can be used, so long as they support PER
> (or perhaps BER).

I'd just like to echo Robin's observation that every time I've had to do 
something with ASN.1 and gone looking for tools, they're hard to find 
and then usually don't work.  -Tim

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