I'll concur wrt the generality, flexibility, and power of XML as a data
encoding. Considering comments on the ancestor thread, though, I'll
also observe that the generality and flexibility are Not Your Friends if
situations require encodings to be distinguished. The processing rules
in X.690
Title: RE: Schema languages for XML (Was: Best practice for data encoding?
I would suggest that the problems with canonicalization in both cases stem from the fact that it was an afterthought. The original description of DER was a single paragraph. If iso required implementations before a
