SV: ASN.1 of new Z39.50 spec

Actually I've got a general question. There are many terms which have e.g. a
hyphen in it's definition, e.g. type-0 or Small-set-element-set-names.
Nearly no programming languages accept a hyphen in an identifier. Is it an
awful idea to rename these to e.g. type0 and SmallSetElementSetNames and in
general ensure that all the ASN.1 names may be directly used in ordinary
programming languages?

Henrik Dahl

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Ray Denenberg
Sendt: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:13 PM
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Emne: Re: ASN.1 of new Z39.50 spec


Alan Kent wrote:

> + The definition of Variant contains a CHOICE that contains unnamed
> + types. According to the latest ASN.1 spec I believe that all items
> + within a CHOICE must now be named.

The Z39.50 community made a firm decision in 1994 that Z39.50 would
never migrate beyond the 1992 version of ASN.1.  (If you want me to
recount that discussion, I can, but I presume it's not necessary.)


> XER requires them anyway in order to have a standard name to use
> in the XER encoding. Is it possible for the master copy of the spec
> to add in standard names? It won't change the BER encoding at all.

Yes, we can do this,  if you tell me the specific instances where you
want this done.

--Ray

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