Re: binaryXML, marshalling, and and trust boundaries from Michael Mealling on 2002-12-05 (www-tag@w3.org from December 2002)

From: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
Date: 05 Dec 2002 13:41:18 -0500
To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Message-Id: <1039113678.4059.58.camel@blackdell.neonym.net>

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:32, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> It's probably worth noting that the ASN.1 people are actively working on
> a binary representation of XML content that might well address a lot of
> the issues raised in this thread.  See, for instance:
> 
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200212/msg00158.html

But that project is just encoding ASN.1's data model into an XML's text
serialization (i.e. its still ASN.1 but XML instead of BER). Its that
data model's lack of 'any' support and its requirements for everything
veing validated (i.e no such thing as well formedness) that causes me
not to be able to use it.

-MM

Received on Thursday, 5 December 2002 13:44:06 UTC