I don't know anything about Extreme Markup. What's
it like? Who goes to it?
I've never been. Perhaps next year (seems a bit late to register for this
year).
Again, thank you. This may be just what I'm
looking for. Is it widely supported?
I can't say for certain (who knows what unpublished and unannounced
efforts may be going forward?), but I think DFDL is just getting going.
Given the prevalence of the problem, I expect DFDL will see wide adoptance
if it does even a remotely decent job of addressing some common problems
within the problem space. I'm certainly keeping an eye on it, since many
of my potential clients have these kinds of problems.
OH. I didn't think of that. Of course.
I wouldn't have thought of that very quickly, either. I got it from the
Extreme Markup site some time ago. Wiseacre that I am, though, I couldn't
resist springing it on you.
Since XSLT 2.0 includes regular expression facilities, I'm sure XSL can
help solve some of these problems. As a case in point, I've already used
xsl:analyze-string to extract a bunch of paragraphs marked with
PARAGRAPH_START and PARAGRAPH_END and turn them into proper elements
objects in my FO and HTML output. With DFDL to provide the necessary hints
about how to handle a non-XML data source, XSLT 2.0's regular expression
features might very well be the entire solution to some of these problems.
Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)
Dennis Barb <dennisxmlwork(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
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At 1:26 PM -0500 6/27/05, JBryant(_at_)s-s-t(_dot_)com 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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