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Bob Wyman wrote: > > I argue that if something is > marked to be an attribute when converted to XML, then it > should be marked as an attribute when it is passed through an > interface like SAX which is commonly used to process XML-like > data. If this were not the case, then binary data would look > different to the user of SAX when it was read directly via > SAX rather than being read from a chunk of XML written by the > XML encoder. This would be silly and unproductive. I absolutely agree. Another way of saying this is that the stream of SAX callbacks coming from parsing/decoding an encoding of ASN.1 (BER, PER, EXTENDED-XER) has to be exactly the same stream, for a given schema and a given instance, regardless of the encoding rules in use (BER, PER, EXTENDED-XER), and has to be the same stream as would be generated by a "normal" SAX parser parsing the XML document. It must be possible to replace a normal SAX parser used by an application with an ASN.1 parser/decoder for either XML or binary encodings with minimum changes to the application code. This will give us the interoperability we need between the two worlds. Alessandro Triglia
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