- From: Sebastian Hammer <quinn@indexdata.dk>
- Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:01:16 +0200
- To: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>, zig <www-zig@w3.org>
At 15:51 04-10-2002 -0400, Ray Denenberg wrote: > > >recordSyntax = XML or SUTRS > > > > This target appears to use an invalid encoding for XML records -- they come > > back as a BER-encoded datatype, whereas I am pretty sure that the proper > > way to represent XML is as an "Octet-aligned" type in the EXTERNAL. > >The issue is with XML, not sutrs? In other words, sutrs come as >single-ASN1-type and that's ok? Correct. > > Ray, we looked around a bit but had a hard time finding a hard statement to > > this effect on the Maintenance agency site, or indeed in the record syntax > > list. > >There is no recorded agreement on this. We were never able to come to Yikes! 'nuff said. >If we distinguish syntaxes that are described in ASN.1 (e.g. sutrs, grs-1) >from >those that aren't (e.g. xml and all the marc sytntaxes) it shouldn't be too >difficult to reach an agreement to use octet aligned for the latter. This is the behavior that is so nearly universally found that I must have just assumed we had an agreement. Put that another way, I would be surprised and dismayed if we couldn't reach an agreement. Cheers, --Sebastian -- Sebastian Hammer, Index Data <http://www.indexdata.dk/> Ph: +45 3341 0100, Fax: +45 3341 0101
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