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diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
index e39b47ff20..dfa8db32dd 100644
--- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
+++ b/lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1_ug.xml
@@ -134,19 +134,17 @@
<title>A First Example</title>
<p>The following example demonstrates the basic functionality used to run
the Erlang ASN.1 compiler.</p>
- <p>First, create a file called <c>People.asn</c> containing the following:</p>
+ <p>Create a file called <c>People.asn</c> containing the following:</p>
<pre>
-People DEFINITIONS IMPLICIT TAGS ::=
-
+People DEFINITIONS AUTOMATIC TAGS ::=
BEGIN
-EXPORTS Person;
-
-Person ::= [PRIVATE 19] SEQUENCE {
- name PrintableString,
- location INTEGER {home(0),field(1),roving(2)},
- age INTEGER OPTIONAL }
+ Person ::= SEQUENCE {
+ name PrintableString,
+ location INTEGER {home(0),field(1),roving(2)},
+ age INTEGER OPTIONAL
+ }
END </pre>
- <p>This file (<c>people.asn</c>) must be compiled before it can be
+ <p>This file (<c>People.asn</c>) must be compiled before it can be
used.
The ASN.1 compiler checks that the syntax is correct and that the
text represents proper ASN.1 code before generating an abstract
@@ -158,14 +156,14 @@ END </pre>
The following shows how the compiler
can be called from the Erlang shell:</p>
<pre>
-1><input>asn1ct:compile("People", [ber]).</input>
+1><input> asn1ct:compile("People", [ber]).</input>
ok
2> </pre>
<p>The <c>verbose</c> option can be given to have information
about the generated files printed:</p>
<pre>
-2><input>asn1ct:compile("People", [ber,verbose]).</input>
+2><input> asn1ct:compile("People", [ber,verbose]).</input>
Erlang ASN.1 compiling "People.asn"
--{generated,"People.asn1db"}--
--{generated,"People.hrl"}--
@@ -173,17 +171,17 @@ Erlang ASN.1 compiling "People.asn"
ok
3> </pre>
- <p>The ASN.1 module People is now accepted and the abstract syntax tree
- is saved in the <c>People.asn1db</c> file, the
- generated Erlang code is compiled using the Erlang compiler and
- loaded into the Erlang runtime system. Now there is a user interface
- for <c>encode/2</c> and <c>decode/2</c> in the module People,
- which is invoked by:
- <br></br>
-<c><![CDATA['People':encode(<Type name>,<Value>),]]></c> <br></br>
-
+ <p>The ASN.1 module <c>People</c> is now accepted and the
+ abstract syntax tree is saved in the <c>People.asn1db</c> file;
+ the generated Erlang code is compiled using the Erlang compiler
+ and loaded into the Erlang runtime system. Now there is an API
+ for <c>encode/2</c> and <c>decode/2</c> in the module
+ <c>People</c>, which is invoked by: <br></br>
+ <c><![CDATA['People':encode(<Type name>, <Value>)]]></c>
+ <br></br>
or <br></br>
-<c><![CDATA['People':decode(<Type name>,<Value>),]]></c></p>
+<c><![CDATA['People':decode(<Type name>, <Value>)]]></c></p>
+
<p>Assume there is a network
application which receives instances of the ASN.1 defined
type Person, modifies and sends them back again:</p>
@@ -206,8 +204,7 @@ receive
constructed and encoded using
<c>'People':encode('Person',Answer)</c> which takes an
instance of a defined ASN.1 type and transforms it to a
- binary according to the BER or PER
- encoding-rules.
+ binary according to the BER or PER encoding rules.
<br></br>
The encoder and the decoder can also be run from
the shell.</p>