Re: [xcbf] XCBF 5/23/2002: Ar

[John Larmouth <j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk>]

This can cause a lot of confusion.  The approach here is to derive tags
from ASN.1 built-in type names, rather than from identifiers of
components, and also to strongly wrap values of elements much as in BER.

For better or worse, the XER Recommendation took the opposite approach
in both these cases.

John L

Phil Griffin wrote:
> 
> This describes some work that was provided to the ASN.1
> group as an input document to a couple of our meetings.
> At that time, we were looking at a couple of others
> including a suggested way to go from an IBM group I
> recall.
> 
> But none of the suggestions proved adequate. But the
> name XER stuck, and the ASN.1 standard that defines
> these rules provides all of the functionality that
> is described here in this article and more.
> 
> Phil
> 
> Monica Martin wrote:
> >
> > From IT World:
> >
> > XER - A Bridge between ASN.1 and XML
> > http://itw.itworld.com/GoNow/a14724a58776a100250797a2
> >
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