The ASN1C code generation tool translates an Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) source file into computer language source files that allow ASN.1 data to be encoded/decoded. This release of ASN1C contains facilities to translate ASN.1 source specifications to an equivalent representation in World-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schema Definition language (XSD).

A utility program is also provided to do the reverse translation from XSD to ASN.1 as specified in the ITU-T X.694 standard. This is the xsd2asn1 executable program located in the installation bin subdirectory. This program is described in the XML Schema to ASN.1 Conversion section.