There is some interesting work going on with XML/ASN.1 translation. Essentially, one can create a 1-1 mapping between an ASN.1 module and an XML schema, and use whatever encoding you're comfortable with (i.e., XML encoding, or ASN.1 [DBP]ER). The advantage here is that the encoding rules for ASN.1 (especially the PER (Packed Encoding Rules)) are very space efficient. Thus, by re-encoding the XML data as ASN.1, one can achieve remarkable levels of compression.
This site has some useful information on the proposed standardization of this effort. There was also a/. post about a recent EE Times article on the subject.
Slashdot Mirror
There is some interesting work going on with XML/ASN.1 translation. Essentially, one can create a 1-1 mapping between an ASN.1 module and an XML schema, and use whatever encoding you're comfortable with (i.e., XML encoding, or ASN.1 [DBP]ER). The advantage here is that the encoding rules for ASN.1 (especially the PER (Packed Encoding Rules)) are very space efficient. Thus, by re-encoding the XML data as ASN.1, one can achieve remarkable levels of compression.
/. post about a recent EE Times article on the subject.
This site has some useful information on the proposed standardization of this effort. There was also a