Re: [xml-dev] ASN.1 is an XML Schema Language (Fix those lists!)and Binary XML not needed...

[Alaric B Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>]

Rich Salz wrote:
>> But in any situation where more than one transfer syntax is allowed, 
>> BER should be one of them...
> 
> 
> If ASN.1 and its encodings are going to have an impact on web services, 
> then I'd put DER (unique encoding; necessary for signatures) and PER 
> (unique and compact) way ahead of BER (useful for homogeneous environments)

Hmmm... BER is the simplest to implement, though, and it's not THAT bad 
on the compactness front.

>     /r$

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