Remove or de-emphasize references to the deprecated asn1rt module

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1rt.xml b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1rt.xml
index 6e22e45d93..3cf56b01ca 100644
--- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1rt.xml
+++ b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1rt.xml
@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@
   <module>asn1rt</module>
   <modulesummary>ASN.1 runtime support functions</modulesummary>
   <description>
-    <p>This module is the interface module for the ASN.1 runtime support functions.
-      To encode and decode ASN.1 types in runtime the functions in this module
-      should be used.</p>
+    <warning>
+      <p>
+	All functions in this module are deprecated and will be
+	removed in a future release.
+      </p>
+    </warning>
   </description>
 
   <funcs>
@@ -52,6 +55,7 @@
       <desc>
         <p>Decodes <c>Type</c> from <c>Module</c> from the binary <c>Bytes</c>.
           Returns <c>{ok,Value}</c> if successful.</p>
+	<p>Use <c>Module:decode(Type, Bytes)</c> instead of this function.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
 
@@ -65,16 +69,13 @@
         <v>Reason = term()</v>
       </type>
       <desc>
-        <p>Encodes <c>Value</c> of <c>Type</c> defined in the ASN.1 module 
-          <c>Module</c>. Returns a possibly nested list of bytes and or binaries 
-          if successful. To get as fast execution as possible the
-          encode function only performs rudimentary tests that the input 
-          <c>Value</c>
-          is a correct instance of <c>Type</c>. The length of strings is for example
-          not always checked. </p>
-	  <note>
-	  <p>Starting in R16, <c>Bytes</c> is always a binary.</p>
-	  </note>
+        <p>Encodes <c>Value</c> of <c>Type</c> defined in the ASN.1
+        module <c>Module</c>. Returns a binary if successful. To get
+        as fast execution as possible the encode function only
+        performs rudimentary tests that the input <c>Value</c> is a
+        correct instance of <c>Type</c>. The length of strings is, for
+        example, not always checked. </p>
+	<p>Use <c>Module:encode(Type, Value)</c> instead of this function.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
 
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@
         <p><c>info/1</c> returns the version of the asn1 compiler that was
           used to compile the module. It also returns the compiler options
           that was used.</p>
+	<p>Use <c>Module:info()</c> instead of this function.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
 
@@ -106,6 +108,7 @@
           to a list of integers, where each integer represents one
           character as its unicode value. The function fails if the binary
           is not a properly encoded UTF8 string.</p>
+	<p>Use <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode#characters_to_list-1">unicode:characters_to_list/1</seealso> instead of this function.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
 
@@ -121,6 +124,7 @@
         <p><c>utf8_list_to_binary/1</c> Transforms a list of integers,
           where each integer represents one character as its unicode
           value, to a UTF8 encoded binary.</p>
+	<p>Use <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode#characters_to_binary-1">unicode:characters_to_binary/1</seealso> instead of this function.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>