Subject: Re: DFDL - Data Format Description Language?
From: Dennis Barb <dennisxmlwork@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:56:43 -0700 (PDT)
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At 1:26 PM -0500 6/27/05, JBryant@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Try http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/dfdl-wg/
Thank you, that reallly helps.
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>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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