]> Hello, William Chesters <williamc@paneris.org> writes: > In summary my feeling is that unless ASN.1 is mandated for a > certiain application it's best avoided because it creates problems > of complexity and over-engineering without actually offering > very much. As a side note, for our own project which needs a client/server encoding convention, I have decided to use XDR. It has some nice properties of ASN.1: standardized (see corresponding IETF RFC); declarative message description; automatic generation of encoder/decoder from/to OCaml data structures. All of that without ASN.1's weight. For OCaml, Gerd Stolpman has written a very nice XDR generator in his RPC package. Yours, david -- David Mentré <dmentre@linux-france.org> http://www.linux-france.org/~dmentre/david-mentre-public-key.asc GnuPG key fingerprint: A7CD 7357 3EC4 1163 745B 7FD3 FB3E AD7C 2A18 BE9E ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners