• To: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@i...>,"'Alaric B Snell'" <alaric@a...>
• Subject: RE: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!) and Binary XML not needed...
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:32:10 -0000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE03F9EEA5@h...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> I remember the SGML and ASN wars over a decade ago but 
> had no personal involvements.  I do remember some smart 
> folks at the time in the SGML camp saying that ASN was 
> a well-conceived technology but overbuilt for the documentation 
> market.  Is is an XML Schema language?  Sure.  And? 
> 
> It seems to me that XML took the market because:
> 
> 1.  Simpler.
> 2.  Smelled like HTML.
> 3.  Had a ready made market from the SGML community.
> 4.  Smelled like HTML.
> 5.  Had the W3C to bless it.... eventually.
> 6.  Had the SGML community's experience with hypermedia 
>     gained during the CALS era.
> 7.  Smelled like HTML.
> 
> There may be others.

Like 
  0.  XML parser @ $0.00 vs. ASN.1 parser @ $50,000.00

The other reasons are completely irrelevant.

Michael Kay

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