On 7/28/06, Ivanov, Alexey A wrote:
>-----Original Message----- >From: Miguel Montes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:58 PM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [classlib][html] Should we try to be binary compatible with >Sun's bdtd? > >So, it seems there is consensus on the following steps: >1) We ask Sun again about the bdtd specs >2) We do NOT reverse engineer the bdtd >3) We choose a format, and document it. Agree with that. Thanks for summarizing. > >It also seems that serialization is not the proper way of doing 3), so we >must select a format that doesn't depend on the implementation of, say, >Hashtable, and we remain compatible with future versions of the class >libraries. Using serialization we do not depend on Hashtable implementation because its serialized form is specified [1]. But we do depend on implementation of classes in jx.s.t.html.parser package, the serialized form of which is not specified. However, I don't insist and we should consider other possibilities too. >What about using ASN.1? We already have a decoder, so it shouldn't be >difficult What is ASN.1?
http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/introduction/index.htm [1]
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