Mark,

I believe that the ASN.1/XML standarization efforts are
still in ballot (last call?). So, they have not yet been 
published and made available for free on the ITU-T SG17
web site along with the rest of the ASN.1 standards. 

I guess that at this point, only those attending the
ASN.1 meetings and contributing to the development of
this work have copies of these amendments and documents.
To review them I believe would require ASN.1 Project 
leader approval. According to the ASN.1 Project web 
page at http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/ ...

  "The ASN.1 standard is being enhanced to provide
  a standard mapping of values of types defined using
  ASN.1 into XML markup format, making it possible for
  such values to be easily displayed using common XML
  browsers regardless of which encoding rules (e.g., 
  BER, PER) such messages were encoded in. This is being
  achieved by using ASN.1 as the schema of the messages,
  and XML markup as the display format.

  In addition to the enhancements to the ASN.1 standard,
  a new encoding rules document (X.693) titled 'Encoding
  using XML or basic ASN.1 value notation', is being 
  created. This document specifies how to encode values
  of ASN.1 types in XML markup format for the purpose of
  transmission (as opposed to using XML markup as value
  notation within an ASN.1 module). Also specified in 
  this document is how to encode values of ASN.1 types
  using ordinary ASN.1 value notation for the purposes
  of transmission. 

  Some benefits of this work are: 

  - Applications will be able to easily display BER-encoded
    or PER-encoded messages (for example) using XML browsers. 
                    
  - It makes possible the creation of tools that allow 
    applications to encode messages in XML markup format, 
    BER format, PER format, etc., without the need to know
    the details of how to encode values in any of these formats. 
                    
  - It will be possible for application protocols to exploit the
    ASN.1 value notation as an ordinary set of encoding rules in
    those cases where textual encodings are desired but there is
    no interest in using XML markup. 

  - Used in conjunction with the ECN support (explained in 
    Section 3), this also enables legacy protocols to have their
    values displayed using XML."

Phil Griffin


Michel PERIN wrote:
> 
> From: Mark DeCoursey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > Can you tell me the spec on ASN.1 -> XML, and where I can get it?
> > Is that "XER"?
> Yes.
> Have a look at:
> http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml
> 
> Michel P�rin
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