Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!prosys!ath From: ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: Re: FTP defn of SGML Message-ID: <609@juno.prosys.se> Date: 30 Sep 90 06:50:51 GMT References: <1990Sep24.174222.22487@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Sep29.021053.19864@cbnewsi.att.com> Organization: Telesoft AB, Teknikringen 2A, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 14 In article <1990Sep29.021053.19864@cbnewsi.att.com> hrs1@cbnewsi.att.com (herman.r.silbiger) writes: >Of course ODL is tied to the ODA architecture, but I don't see any reason >why a ASN.1 version of SGML could not be done. It might be useful to have a >way of specifying non-hierarchical architectures in a BNF notation. Isn't that what SDIF is about? I haven't seen the SDIF document myself, but I have the impression that it used ASN.1 to specify a SGML interchange format. -- Anders Thulin ath@prosys.se {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden