- From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:18:39 -0500
- To: "Jacob Palme" <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, "General discussion of Extensible Markup Language" <XML-L@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE>, "IETF Applications Area Discussion List" <discuss@apps.ietf.org>
> My personal wish would be to have such a neat and strongly > typed metalanguage as ASN.1, but such neat and readable > encoded data as XML. (I know that there is something called > XER. But I do not believe that is what I am asking for. XER > is an attempt to encode ASN.1 into a subset of XML. What I > would wish is an ASN.1-like replacement for the DTD meta > language, i.e. a meta language which can replace DTD for > the full span of the XML language.) The W3C is attempting to create such a thing - the XML Schema language. The current work divides the problem into two spaces Structures - http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ Datatypes - http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ For W3C members (I know, this doesn't help everyone here), the working group page is: http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/Schemas.html and the associated Interest Group charter page is http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/1999/05/xml-schema-ig-charter.html -- Scott Lawrence Director of R & D <lawrence@agranat.com> Agranat Systems Embedded Web Technology http://www.agranat.com/
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