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* [http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/ Official DFDL site] | * [http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/ Official DFDL site] | ||
| + | * [http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/dfdl-wg DFDL WG] | ||
* [[Wikipedia:Data Format Description Language|Wikipedia article]] | * [[Wikipedia:Data Format Description Language|Wikipedia article]] | ||
* [http://cet.ncsa.uiuc.edu/projects/naraDefuddle.html Investigations of Data Representation] | * [http://cet.ncsa.uiuc.edu/projects/naraDefuddle.html Investigations of Data Representation] | ||
Revision as of 03:14, 16 December 2013
DFDL (Data Format Definition Language) is a file format for describing file formats. It is an XML-based schema that allows arbitrary binary or text-based data formats to be described in a manner which allows the automated parsing of the data file into a corresponding XML file with the same data elements in the same order, capable of round-trip transformations to and from the original data format without loss. A DFDL document consists of an XML schema describing the data fields of a format, supplemented with annotations which describe how the data is stored (defining delimiters, endianness, etc.).
A partial (and not quite fully standards-compliant) implementation of a DFDL parser has been released as the open-source project Defuddle. Implementation is in progress of a new, improved DFDL parser called Daffodil.
DFDL schema files generally have the .xsd extension, denoting XML Schema Definitions.
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Format specs
Software
- Defuddle
- Daffodil (in progress)
- IBM Integration Bus (formerly WebSphere Message Broker) is commercial software that includes a DFDL parser/mapper
