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Re: proposed: use abstract syntax notation (asn06)

From: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:08:16 +0000
Message-ID: <4558DEC0.8080005@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
To: Chris Welty <cawelty@frontiernet.net>
Cc: public-rif-wg@w3.org 

Chris Welty wrote:

> Still, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't already something out there 
> that provided this kind of functionality and would be happy to hear of it.

Well there is ASN.1 of course (I assume the name asn06 is a deliberate 
pun on that).

ASN.1 is pretty complex but I guess it might be possible to make asn06 a 
strict subset of ASN.1 then one could use the various ASN.1 tools for 
generating concrete serializations using the standardized or custom 
encoding rules.

Though I detect a lack of fondness in people's voices when they talk 
about ASN.1 ...

Dave
Received on Monday, 13 November 2006 21:29:08 GMT

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