RE: DFDL - Data Format Description Language?

Extreme Markup looks both fascinating and far too heavy for me. I'd be
interested in a conference that falls exactly in the middle between it
and the vendor dog and pony shows ("It slices, it dices, it writes its
own schema while doing the dishes!"). Is there anything out there along
these lines?

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-- Brook