[dfdl-wg] Microsoft Biztalk Flat File Extensions

[mike.beckerle at ascentialsoftware.com]

Yup. I thought the same thing. Philosophically all very similar. Different
in all the details. 
 
Like the IBM system it's quite machine-centric. I think we're shooting for a
notch more human-intelligibility in the DFDL-WG currently.
 
However, I'm a bit biased to NOT reach out to Microsoft and twist their arm
for participation in our WG just yet. Not until we've made a bit more
progress. We're really cranking on a prototype here at Ascential and I want
to avoid distractions currently.
 
...mikeb


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From: Suman Kalia [mailto:kalia at ca.ibm.com] 
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Mike -- This seems quite similar to the proposal I submited based on Type
Descriptor.  They have a schema for the physical representation and the
instances of which  (eg. recordInfo, fieldInfo etc) appear as annotations on
schema elements , attributes etc.   


Suman Kalia
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Microsoft has a completely proprietary but otherwise DFDL-like thing in its
bag of tricks too: 
 
see 
 <http://www.winterdom.com/dev/bts/BTSFFSchemaTut2.html>
http://www.winterdom.com/dev/bts/BTSFFSchemaTut2.html 
  


 

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