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[Alaric Snell]
> On Friday 10 May 2002 01:47, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>
> > > Wow. Now that's a remarkably complicating (though admittedly
brilliant)
> > > proposal. Uh.... I think I'd prefer a binary format to that. MOE can
> > > cope with such things easily, but I'm not sure XML itself can.
> >
> > Try ASN.1.
>
> ASN.1 rocks as a schema language! It was designed for interchanging
> information in the first place rather than evolving from a document
format.
> And you get your choice of encoding syntaxes from XML itself to tight
> bit-level formats that are compact on the wire and very efficient to parse
> (PER)...
>
Hi, Al, knew we could get you to join in!.
> It is more accurate to compare ASN.1 to XML schema languages and XML to
> BER/PER/CER/DER than to compare ASN.1 to XML, by the way.
>
Yes, and that's why I mentioned it in the context of PVSI information, which
is so closely related to schema information. PVSI data in PER?
Cheers,
Tom P
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