RE: [xml-dev] Is it time for the binary XML permathread to start up again?

> Even though XML Schema is more popular today, ASN.1 has been 
> around for over 20 years and has been used in many standards 
> in telecommunications and in other areas of technology.

Sure. All I'm saying is that if the economics had been different, XML
wouldn't exist today, and we'd all be using ASN.1, with the exception of a
few diehard SGML people doing specialist publishing applications...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/