Renamed ASN.1 Module to Z39.50 ASN.1 module.

[yaz-moved-to-github.git] / doc / asn.xml

diff --git a/doc/asn.xml b/doc/asn.xml
index 2e3f836..cf8cbb7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/asn.xml
+++ b/doc/asn.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-<!-- $Id: asn.xml,v 1.8 2001-08-23 09:12:09 adam Exp $ -->
- <chapter><title>The ASN Module</title>
-  <sect1><title>Introduction</title>
+<!-- $Id: asn.xml,v 1.11 2001-10-25 11:55:56 adam Exp $ -->
+ <chapter id="asn"><title>The Z39.50 ASN.1 Module</title>
+  <sect1 id="asn.introduction"><title>Introduction</title>
    <para>
     The &asn; module provides you with a set of C struct definitions for the
-    various PDUs of the protocol, as well as for the complex types
+    various PDUs of the Z39.50 protocol, as well as for the complex types
     appearing within the PDUs. For the primitive data types, the C
     representation often takes the form of an ordinary C language type,
     such as <literal>int</literal>. For ASN.1 constructs that have no direct
@@ -11,8 +11,15 @@
     the &odr; module (see section <link linkend="odr">The ODR Module</link>)
     provides auxiliary definitions.
    </para>
+   <para>
+    The &asn; module is located in sub directory <filename>z39.50</filename>.
+    There you'll find C files that implements encoders and decoders for the
+    Z39.50 types. You'll also find the protocol definitions:
+    <filename>z3950v3.asn</filename>, <filename>esupdate.asn</filename>, 
+    and others.
+   </para>
   </sect1>
-  <sect1><title>Preparing PDUs</title>
+  <sect1 id="asn.preparing"><title>Preparing PDUs</title>
    
    <para>
     A structure representing a complex ASN.1 type doesn't in itself contain the
@@ -125,7 +132,7 @@
     
    </para>
   </sect1>
-  <sect1><title id="oid">Object Identifiers</title>
+  <sect1 id="asn.oid"><title id="oid">Object Identifiers</title>
   <para>
     When you refer to object identifiers in your application, you need to
     be aware that SR and Z39.50 use two different set of OIDs to refer to
@@ -187,7 +194,7 @@ struct oident *oid_getentbyoid(int *o);
    </note>
   
   </sect1>
-  <sect1><title>EXTERNAL Data</title>
+  <sect1 id="asn.external"><title>EXTERNAL Data</title>
    
    <para>
     In order to achieve extensibility and adaptability to different
@@ -333,7 +340,7 @@ typedef struct Z_ext_typeent
    </note>
   
   </sect1>
-  <sect1><title>PDU Contents Table</title>
+  <sect1 id="asn.pdu"><title>PDU Contents Table</title>
    
   <para>
     We include, for reference, a listing of the fields of each top-level
@@ -372,10 +379,10 @@ typedef struct Z_ext_typeent
        idAuthentication</entry><entry>Z_IdAuthentication</entry><entry>NULL
       </entry></row>
      <row><entry>
-       implementationId</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"YAZ (id=81)"
+       implementationId</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"81"
       </entry></row>
      <row><entry>
-       implementationName</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"Index Data/YAZ"
+       implementationName</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"YAZ"
       </entry></row>
      <row><entry>
        implementationVersion</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>YAZ_VERSION
@@ -423,10 +430,10 @@ typedef struct Z_ext_typeent
        result</entry><entry>bool_t</entry><entry>TRUE
        </entry></row>
       <row><entry>
-       implementationId</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"YAZ (id=81)"
+       implementationId</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"id)"
        </entry></row>
       <row><entry>
-       implementationName</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"Index Data/YAZ"
+       implementationName</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>"YAZ"
        </entry></row>
       <row><entry>
        implementationVersion</entry><entry>char*</entry><entry>YAZ_VERSION