Subject: Re: [xsl] DFDL - Data Format Description Language? From: JBryant@xxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:25:25 -0500 |
> 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 I can't say for certain (who knows what unpublished and unannounced efforts may be going forward?), but I think DFDL is just getting going.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@xxxxxxxxx> 06/27/2005 03:56 PM Please respond to xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: [xsl] 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 ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com
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