Re: DFDL - Data Format Description Language?

At 1:26 PM -0500 6/27/05, JBryant@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Try http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/dfdl-wg/

Thank you, that reallly helps. 
>
>Mulberry is offering a tutorial on it at the 2005
Extreme Markup Languages 
>conference.

I don't know anything about Extreme Markup. What's it
like? Who goes to it? 

>
>It's basically a way to try to deal with legacy
(non-XML) data in such a 
>way that XML-based systems can make sense of it. To
do that, separate 
>files in the DFDL format describe the legacy content.
Put differently, 
>it's a way to add metadata about legacy data that
XML-based systems can 
>use to interact with the legacy data. If you have a
mix of XML and non-XML 
>data, it makes sense, yes.

Again, thank you. This may be just what I'm looking
for. Is it widely supported? 

>
>And can you say Daffodil? :D

OH. I didn't think of that.  Of course. 

Thank you again. 
-Dennis


		
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