Art Botterell wrote:
> Friends -
>
> Sounds like a lot of important details are being picked up here, so may
> I offer a more general suggestion? Is there someplace where it is, or
> could be, stated explicitly that our overriding intent is for the ASN.1
> and XML codings to represent the same data structure interchangeably?
This is already mentioned in ITU-T Rec. X.1303.1 (and there is a note in
X.1303 that points to X.1303.1 and says the same). Please check if it is
an answer to your suggestion.
> That might seem trivial or obvious, but there's always the possibility
> that some small inconsistency will slip past our collective inspection,
> however thorough. Might it be prudent, therefore, to memorialize our
> overall intent as an added safeguard against some accidental artifact
> being mistaken for intentional at some point in the future?
Well... this would mean that ITU-T Rec. X.694 (Mapping from XSD to
ASN.1) is broken ;-)
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