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From: hrs1@cbnewsi.att.com (herman.r.silbiger)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: FTP defn of SGML
Summary: use of SDIF
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.002410.3924@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 00:24:10 GMT
References: <1990Sep24.174222.22487@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <609@juno.prosys.se>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <609@juno.prosys.se>, ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
SDIF provides an ASN.1 envelope for an SGML encoded document, to enable it to be
interchanged in an ASN.1 environment.  The document is still "normal" SGML.

Herman Silbiger
hsilbiger@att.com