Re: [xml-dev] Objections to / uses of PSVI?

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

[Rich Salz]

> > ASN.1 requires external schemas so that data structures can be coded.
>
> ASN.1 *is* a schema, it's not something that needs a schema, so it
> doesn't answer the question.

ASN.1 includes schemas, encoded message forms, and value notations.  You
send the encoded messages (BER, PER, etc.), and can look at human-readable
messages using value notations.  With the encoded messages, you don't use
the schema directly but it would have been used to build your data
structures, etc.

Cheers,

Tom P