Re: Non-XML binary formats.

David Ryan wrote:
> But I'm 
> surprised there is so little choice around for this problem; especially 
> given that the problem of developing and agreeing upon a data format or 
> schema is so fundamental.  Just to reiterate my question in a slightly 
> different way.  Is there no other binary format around, that is not 
> ASN.1 and is not a simple binary formated XML(ie A binary encoding that 
> is flexible and that has schema properties to describe the format of the 
> encoding)?

What do you mean by "a simple binary formated XML"? There are quite a 
few binary XML formats out there that do more than just replacing tags 
with binary tokens. Some use schema information to encore XML 
information in binary form.

-- 
Robin Berjon

Received on Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:49:01 UTC