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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:16:14 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: ASN.1 (Was: [9fans] More 'Sam I am')
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I implemented both in ozinferno.  ASN is almost ludicrous.
XML was remarkably easy but ruthless.  anyhow my XML
parser does parse the XML spec (written in XML) and i'm
yet to find a commercial product that does.

brucee

On 2/11/06, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> > So why not /lib/ndb format: textual attribute=3Dvalue pairs
> > with grouping?
>
> Vote 1 for Geoff.
>
> Seriously I tried this for a project, but got loads of flak for not
> using The Standard (XML) so when I "threw one away" last year I reworked
> the system using XML.
>
> To be honest the pain was short lived - writing the parser, and since
> then I don't see much difference. There are some of XMLs stranger rules
> and all those [<>/] which look a mess to my C trained eyes but I try
> not to look too often.
>
> (Before anyone jumps doen my throat I wrote a parser because I am on a
> small embedded system)
>
> -Steve
>