• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!)and Binary XML not needed...
• From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 01:30:51 +0000
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> If some aspect of ASN.1 can cover mixed content and open content models,
> I'm happy to welcome it to my regular list of XML schema languages.
> Otherwise, I'll be happy to continue promoting ASN.1 as an _alternative_
> to XML, albeit one with ASN.1->XML->ASN.1 interoperability.
> 
> (It's the anyXML->ASN.1->anyXML part that seems to remain a problem.)

There's an ASN.1 type for the Infoset... meaning, one ASN.1 schema that 
covers any XML document. Useful for simple arbitrary-XML compression by 
reading XML and outputting a PER representation of the infoset. Run the 
result of that through GZip to compress the text parts and it gets 
pretty small!

> I also wish there were open source tools for ASN.1 that just reported
> the contents of an ASN.1 message, more like the open-ended approach that
> XML parsers have generally taken.
> 
> There could be some very cool stuff there. 

Yeah... the shortage of ASN.1 tools [expletive deleted]. There's some really lovely 
tools you can pay for, but that situation locks out experimenters, open 
source folks, etc.

Who's up for a project to build an open source ASN.1 toolkit?

ABS

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