Re: [xml-dev] Xml is _not_ self describing

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

On Thursday 17 January 2002 10:53 am, Al Snell wrote:
> > FWIW. I also believe in "the right syntax for the job".
>
> One of the nice things about ASN.1 is that instead of (say) an XML
> schema you specify an "abstract syntax", which is basically a data
> model, and then use any of a library of "transfer syntaxes" which
> map from that abstract syntax to strings of bits.

I quite like this approach because it allows you to perform late 
optimization as needed.