Hi, Dennis,

Try http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/dfdl-wg/

Mulberry is offering a tutorial on it at the 2005 Extreme Markup Languages 
conference.

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.

And can you say Daffodil? :D

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




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 DFDL - Data Format Description Language?






Does anyone know what DFDL is?  (I think that stands
for Data Format Description Language, but I'm not
sure.)

I was told that I should use it to format documents in
a mixed XML and non-XML repository using XSL-FO. 
Does that make sense? 

Where can I find our more about DFDL? (And how on
earth to people come up with such unpronounceable
acronyms?)

Thanks.
Dennis


 
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