On 30 Oct 2005 17:02:25 -0800
michael@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>
> > > If you're wondering where I'm heading with this, think of nested
data -
> > > like XML (only far more compact).
> >
> > If that's the goal look into ASN1.
> >
>
> Isn't ANS1 mostly about encoding data *type* - along with the data?
I looked around for some references to give you and I found
it hard to spot the nested tag-length-value mechanism I met as ASN.1
around 1990 in the documentation for ASN.1 now. I think it's still there
under the hood of standard types and constructions though.
The essence of what I was thinking about was nested TLV
structures which always seemed to me to be more robust than the
paired delimiters of XML.
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