On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 06:40:35PM -0800, Tim Bray wrote: > ASN.1 always had data types, and then XML came along, which had no data > types but a pretty good system for associating names with chunks of data, > and successfully invaded most of ASN.1's space. At which point I concluded > that it's more important to know something's name than its data type. That's a good summary. Though there's still a lot of input validation to do, hence formalisms.
