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)...
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.
>
> Tom P
>
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