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)
Dennis Barb <dennisxmlwork(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
06/27/2005 01:00 PM
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[xsl] 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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